After publishing my thoughts on the upside down world of Silicon Valley right now in Through the Looking Glass: A Silicon Valley Story, I've spent weeks talking with people in the Valley at all levels who feel equally displaced in this strange new reality.
"Yarvin argues that some people are meant to have all the authority and some people are meant to be completely dependent. And every time he says “dependent,” he’s obviously talking about subjugation. Who gets to have all the authority? The elite - mostly wealthy men. And who gets to be utterly dependent/subjugated? Children, women - especially wives, and people who are enslaved.
Who is enslaved? Well, anyone can be enslaved! But Yarvin writes that some people are “natural slaves.”
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So it's not just identity politics, it's domination thinking, it's hierarchy thinking, it's colonialist ideology of "we are better than everybody else so it's our right and destiny to tell others what to do". That's the danger of this "identity", and enough people believe in that "Great Man" theory of history that they get supported.
Regarding Truth 4, Meg Conley did a pre-election deep dive on what these guys want by investigating the writing of Curtis Yarvin, somebody cited and hosted by Thiel, Andreesen and Vance in her Pocket Observatory newsletter: https://www.pocketobservatory.org/the-new-right-wants-to-scale-slavery-i-guess/
Here's a choice excerpt to whet your interest:
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"Yarvin argues that some people are meant to have all the authority and some people are meant to be completely dependent. And every time he says “dependent,” he’s obviously talking about subjugation. Who gets to have all the authority? The elite - mostly wealthy men. And who gets to be utterly dependent/subjugated? Children, women - especially wives, and people who are enslaved.
Who is enslaved? Well, anyone can be enslaved! But Yarvin writes that some people are “natural slaves.”
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So it's not just identity politics, it's domination thinking, it's hierarchy thinking, it's colonialist ideology of "we are better than everybody else so it's our right and destiny to tell others what to do". That's the danger of this "identity", and enough people believe in that "Great Man" theory of history that they get supported.