Curtis Yarvin spent at least a year shamelessly advocating a brutal Ronavirus police state total surveillance regime.

Nitpicks first. “Advocating” is worth significantly less than literal bullshit. According to Moldbug, too. As to police state, it was quite comical when the USA Inner Party clowns screamed «we want police state without police!», while USA Outer Party clowns screamed «No-o! Keep the police!»

As to his expressed stance as such… well, it was annoying, but not surprising at all.

1. While he knows well that «attempting to understand the world through the reports and analysis produced by the Cathedral is like trying to watch a circus through the camera on a cell phone duct-taped to the elephant’s trunk», he did not quite kick the habit himself.

2. While he does not seriously buy into accelerationism, he at least occasionally dallies with it.

3. Even when he obviously knows the score, he does not preach to the choir, but to the prospective converts. That’s, like, right in the names. “An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives”, “Gray Mirror Of The Nihilist Prince”.

Altitude Zero: “It’s been obvious for quite a while that a lot of Yarvin’s outlook is driven by his terror of street crime.”

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Yes, nerds/weaklings tend to panic when faced with any kind of physical threat, including disease. Yarvin is still worth reading. You just have to keep in mind his biases and blind spots.

(Sailer, Cochran, Razib and Jayman have similar flaw.)

All I can say is the fear of what was widely proclaimed to be the greatest pandemic ever that would wipe humanity from the face of the earth made a lot of people run for moral cover. A lot still do, though if they are socialist or lefty-crazy they love a police state whatever the reason. At least Yarvin probably doesn’t want it all the time.

Never forget.