“It is very difficult for a modern American to construct the history of the last 250 years as a history of decay. Decay is especially concealed by the obvious history of technical and scientific progress. While this has no reason at all to correlate with political or cultural progress, the two are certainly not hard to confuse.Yarvin, Curtis (October 18, 2007) “How Dawkins got pwned.” 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.