“As a people, we believe insane things, because democracy has driven us all insane. After all, it's had two hundred years to do so. Its edifice of magical thinking is a wonderful thing, ornate as a Disney castle, more worthy of admiration than destruction. Sadly, it is the castle of evil, and God's sweet fire will melt it in a flash.Yarvin, Curtis (March 18, 2010) “Divine-right monarchy for the modern secular intellectual.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

American political blogger and software developer

Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American political blogger and software developer. He is identified with the far right and with the late 2000s intellectual current known as the Dark Enlightenment, or neo-reactionary movement. He is best known for helping found that anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic movement alongside philosopher Nick Land. His writing is associated with critique of democracy and equality, and with arguments that helped define NRx as a distinct political philosophy.