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	<title>Isegoria &#187; Mencius Moldbug</title>
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		<title>Fully enlightened means fully disenchanted</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/fully-enlightened-means-fully-disenchanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Marchese of the New York Times asks Curtis Yarvin, why is democracy so bad? Let me answer that in a way that would be relatively accessible to readers of The New York Times. You’ve probably heard of a man named Franklin Delano Roosevelt. […] I do a speech sometimes where I’ll just read the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>He also thinks that current liberal democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/he-also-thinks-that-current-liberal-democracy-contains-the-seeds-of-its-own-destruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian is writing about the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration: Curtis Yarvin is hardly a household name in US politics. But the “neoreactionary” thinker and far-right blogger is emerging as a serious intellectual influence on key figures in Donald Trump’s coming administration in particular over potential threats to US democracy. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Oligarchy is inherently leftist, just as monarchy is inherently rightist</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2023/04/oligarchy-is-inherently-leftist-just-as-monarchy-is-inherently-rightist/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2023/04/oligarchy-is-inherently-leftist-just-as-monarchy-is-inherently-rightist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our problem, Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) explains, is that the world is run by a regime with a long-run structurally leftist bias: It evolves leftisms. On Mars, the same regime structure would evolve the same ideas. Oligarchy is inherently leftist, just as monarchy is inherently rightist. […] The engineering problem is that when a marketplace [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The self-described dark elf who yearns for a king</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/11/the-self-described-dark-elf-who-yearns-for-a-king/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/11/the-self-described-dark-elf-who-yearns-for-a-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Prokop of Vox recently spoke with Curtis Yarvin, the monarchist, anti-democracy blogger that many of us still remember as Mencius Moldbug: When I first asked to speak with Yarvin, he requested that I prove my “professional seriousness as a current historian” by “reading or at least skimming” three books, and I complied. One of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Try thinking of your culture and society as a battered wife</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/try-thinking-of-your-culture-and-society-as-a-battered-wife/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/try-thinking-of-your-culture-and-society-as-a-battered-wife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) asks ordinary Americans who aren&#8217;t power-hungry (&#8220;hobbits&#8221;) to try thinking of their culture and society as a battered wife: If your husband hits you, your job is not to hit him back. Winning a battle in the culture war — as in today’s Current Thing, the repeal of Roe v. Wade [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolving more and more pretty lies until pervasive error is again the norm</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/evolving-more-and-more-pretty-lies-until-pervasive-error-is-again-the-norm/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/evolving-more-and-more-pretty-lies-until-pervasive-error-is-again-the-norm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2019 12:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western civilization has been repeating this story over and over for roughly the last half-millennium, Moldbug argues: The intellectual command economy rules. Public opinion is directed by a dogmatic bureaucracy, rife with pervasive error, systematically incapable of changing its mind. An unofficial free market for truth evolves. This market cannot be poisoned by power, because [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>This is a slow and degenerative process which cannot be reversed</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/this-is-a-slow-and-degenerative-process-which-cannot-be-reversed/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/this-is-a-slow-and-degenerative-process-which-cannot-be-reversed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one sensible could possibly mind a benevolent dictator who was also always right, Moldbug suggests: Distributed systems are hard. It’s amazing when they work at all. We shouldn’t be surprised to see failure modes. But nor should we have to live with, or be ruled by, pervasive error. So we should admit that distributed [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>One of Orwell’s grim truths</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/one-of-orwells-grim-truths/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/one-of-orwells-grim-truths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s more than one kind of loyalty: Intentional loyalty (trying to help the Party), emotional loyalty (believing in the Party), and objective loyalty (being useful to the Party) are three different things. One of Orwell’s grim truths is how easy it is to be objectively useful to a regime by intentionally rebelling against it.]]></description>
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		<title>No hardcoded program is perfect</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/no-hardcoded-program-is-perfect/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/12/no-hardcoded-program-is-perfect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is our taste for politics so different from our taste for sugar? Instinct is not intelligence. No hardcoded program is perfect. But in a stable adaptive environment, an instinct that fails systematically will have long since been revised by evolution. In the tribal world, not only were political instincts like loyalty and ambition productive for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>One Key Tenet of the Neoreaction</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/one-key-tenet-of-the-neoreaction/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/one-key-tenet-of-the-neoreaction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Foseti were forced to pick the one key tenet of the neoreaction, he’d pick this understanding of Progressivism, borrowed from Moldbug: To the reactionary, Progressivism is a nontheistic Christain sect. If you don’t understand Progressivism in this way, you simply don’t understand Progressivism. From this understanding of Progressivism, all other reactionary ideas flow. For [&#8230;]]]></description>
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