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"A good test for getting rid of anything is: if we didnt have this, would we need it?"
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Curtis Yarvin"Because dependency is another name for power. The relationship between dependent and provider is the relationship between client and patron. Which is the relationship between parent and child. Which also happens to be the relationship between master and slave. There’s a reason Aristotle devotes the first book of the Politics to this sort of kitchen government. Modern Americans have enormous difficulty in grasping hierarchical social structures. We grew up steeped in "applied Christianity" pretty much the way the Hitler Youth grew up steeped in Hitler. The suggesting that slavery could ever be or have been, as Aristotle suggests, natural and healthy, is like suggesting to the Hitler Youth that it might be cool to make some Jewish friends. Their idea of Jews is straight out of Jud Süß. Our idea of slavery is straight out of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. If you want an accurate perspective of the past, a propaganda novel is probably not the best place to start. [...] We think of the master-slave relationship as usually sick and twisted, and invariably adversarial. Parent-child relationships can be all three. But they are not normally so. If history (not to mention evolutionary biology) proves anything, it proves that humans fit into dominance-submission structures almost as easily as they fit into the nuclear family.Yarvin, Curtis (May 29, 2008) “OL7: the ugly truth about government.” Unqualified Reservations (blog)."
Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is known, along with accelerationist philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx), which originated in the late 2000s.
"A good test for getting rid of anything is: if we didnt have this, would we need it?"
"Stability is much underappreciated, especially by those who enjoy its benefits."
"Why, when, and how to abolish the United States", Unqualified Reservations (July 3, 2007)."
"Of course empire works. Conquest works. It has worked for the entire course of human history. It is not only effective, it is profitable."
"Are we really to believe that Marx, on his own, invented the idea that all men are brothers, despite living in a society dominated by a religion whose creed taught exactly that?"
"A good test for whether or not anything should continue to exist: if it didnt exist, would anyone invent it?"