“In a working monarchy, the monarch is the center of everything awesome. All awesome people rise toward the court, which is simply a fancy-dress ritual for the coolest, most important people in the country. “Office and custom, in all line of order".{{Pb}}In our fallen democratic world, we refuse to process this frame. We insist that our kings and queens, if we still have them, be what we made them: ceremonial fops, crowned Kardashians, normal people in abnormal clothing. And when we take the magic of their power away—the prophecy fulfills itself.”

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.