Curtis Guy Yarvin | |
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Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Mencius Moldbug |
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Spouse | Jennifer Kollmer (died 2021) |
School | Neo-Monarchism Neo-Reactionism Dark Enlightenment Anti-Egalitarianism Anti-Democracy Anti-Liberalism Neocameralism |
Website | Unqualified Reservations – his old blog Gray Mirror – his new blog |
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Curtis Guy Yarvin (born 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger. He is known, along with philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).[1][2][3][4]
In his blog Unqualified Reservations, which he wrote from 2007 to 2014, and on his later Substack page called Gray Mirror, which he started in 2020, he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment[5] that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations.[6] Yarvin has been described as a "neo-reactionary" and "neo-monarchist" who "sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy".[7][8][9]
In 2002, Yarvin began work on a personal software project that eventually became the Urbit networked computing platform. In 2013, he co-founded the company Tlon to oversee the Urbit project and helped lead it until 2019.[10]
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