Sunday, November 03, 2024

Curtis Yarvin, Mencius Moldbug

Are any of you readers of his substack, Gray Mirror? Or of his previous blog Unqualified Reservations, under his pseudonym? Descriptions like Neo-monarchist and Neocameralist awaken interest, and being described as one of the founders of the Dark Enlightenment make me well-disposed to him.

Not sure even I can follow him down many of his favorite roads, however.  Maybe I just need to get used to these ideas.  I spent an hour browsing around in his writing tonight.

2 comments:

Thos. said...

I started reading Unqualified Reservations years ago, while he was still writing it.

He's good at offering plausible explanations of how we/society came to be in the mess we're in. And he's especially skillful at exposing the human knack for self deception.

I stopped reading him once it became clear that his "solutions" were never going to be plausible.

Assistant Village Idiot said...

Isn't that the history of great adventurous thinkers, though? Great on diagnosis, not so good on treatment?