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I continue to be confused as to what Curtis Yarvin’s actual ideas are unherd.com/2022/06/only-a

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You have to read a lot of Yarvin before you can understand any Yarvin. But it's worth it.

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If you have to read a lot of someone to understand them I usually consider this a red flag

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It usually is a red flag. But not always. Some thinkers take a while to soak in, because they're rewiring one's world view rather than just making specific claims that could expressed in bullet points.

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Some thinkers, like Feyerabend, take some work to read and parse, but have some worthwhile thinking.

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His right-wing thought comes through a Marxist lense which is an atypical combination so it can be confusing depending on which side you started at.

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"This seems like garbage." "No, you have to read all 200 volumes of the manga. When you've read Vol. 201, you'll see why I should be the king of America, and also the king of England. Although I am American."

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Sometimes the ideas outweigh the writer's ability, which makes it more difficult to articulate, leading to some confusion for the reader.

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Red flagging Hegel right here.

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I think this is mediated somewhat by the army of yarvin interpreters, who will tell you what yarvin thinks slowly but clearly. Thinking of

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Paul Graham might be at the other end where you can read very little of what he writes before it starts making sense (except for the technical/programming stuff).

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This piece is very easy to understand as far as what it argues, harder to understand as far as how it was actually written and published in its present form