No, he sounds sincere. I don't think yarvin is clever enough to have an esoteric teaching
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He's clever enough. The question with him is loyalty - does he prefer a world where the present ruling class stays on top because he sees himself and his family as a hereditary members of it or does he prefer to see the regime that he hates perish if it requires <> that class?
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @jlippincott_
Hm, have you heard him on the recent Michael malice podcast? Or Have you read his essay titled "we don't have to live like this"? Sums up his stance nicely and seeing as he has written more about how the system works and why its so dysfunctional than anybody else, he is /ourguy/
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Replying to @WindReign @jlippincott_
Haven't heard him on the Michael Malice podcast - have heard others of his - have read all the essays he's written since his return (and all of UR the first time around). I do think it's an open question.
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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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They're not totally contradictory but they are in tension.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @jlippincott_
Hmm, as far as I understood it, he is actually pretty clear that not a single person who has had any position of significance can be brought over to the next regime, but the lower level goons can be reused.
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Replying to @WindReign @jlippincott_
The practical difficulty is that the current system is one of power obfuscation it carefully hides who has power in the system - it's even opaque to an extent to people within the system.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @jlippincott_
Very true but you can venture a pretty good guess. A good bet would be anybody who was in that 500 person zoom call is a good target.
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Caveat: I don't know for sure the answer here - that said... The view that "there are 500 people" fails b/c those aren't really 500 people - there are 500 slots subject to cutthroat competition by thousands who aim for them by being better leftists than the next guy.
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Any of the thousands competing for those slots would take similar actions to the 500. If you can't trust one group, how can you trust the other?
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @jlippincott_
You probably can't. He pretty much said as much when talking to Alex, taking down journos in nyt is meaningless cause there is a thousand others waiting behind them. The whole thing is rotten, the people are replaceable, its what makes oligarchies so robust.
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