"[W]e have long since learned that offering any resistance to any kind of a mob is incompatible with our great American tradition of civil liberties."
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 common error […] is to identify tyranny and monarchy, which in fact are quite unrelated political forms—all they share is the coincidence of personal rule. We may not all know it, but wed almost all rather live under the "autocratic" and "absolutist" tsars than under Stalin."
"[T]he state is simply a real-estate business on a very large scale."
"[T]axation is not theft. Taxation is rent."
"In the twenty-first century, any writer whose work appears anywhere but his own blog is a shill. Or at least, he should be assumed to be compromised unless proven otherwise. The Internet has all the tools you need to write and be read without being beholden to anyone. If anyone rejects this independence, you have to wonder why."
"The problem today is that the people who think they are the most daring are in fact the most obsequious."
"Limited government is a recipe for corrupting the judiciary."