Curtis Yarvin is not stupid - he knows that the exact men whose letters Caesar burned *murdered him* a few months later. His successor Augustus did not hesitate to proscribe his enemies and died an old Emperor. The lesson is the opposite of the one he's ostensibly teaching.pic.twitter.com/WRBY6zoSLx
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He sees the system as dysfunctional but the elites as highly intelligent and trapped in a bad system rather than the result of a system that selects its elites in a way hostile to intelligence and strongly in favor of cowardice and treachery.
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He asserts that the current crop of academics / journalists / bureaucrats should all be retired but also that these people merely follow power and so will change their tunes when power changes. These assertions are in tension.
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