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> believers in NRx

> enact Yarvinism

> carbon-copy of RAGE

Is there someone who can translate this obscure set of references?



I had to look this up.

- NRx = New Reactionism

- Yarvinism = replacing democracy with “accountable dictatorship” (resembling corporate governance, with a hopefully benevolent dictator + a board)

- RAGE = Retire All Government Employees

Sounds like a Peter Thiel wet dream


NRx - neo-reactionary movement

Yarvinism - the political ideals of Curtis Yarvin. Openly a friend of Thiel and Vance. I don't know about Musk, he may be a more recent convert.

RAGE - Retire All Government Employees, the first step of Yarvin's plan.

Further reading: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/026327642199943...


Thank you for the link! Looks like a serious thing, I'm reminded of Mark Fisher after browsing a few paragraphs. Excellent. For people that don't click it for whatever reason, it looks very interesting, here's some metadata:

  Journal: Theory, Culture & Society
  Date of publication: 2021, Vol. 38(6) 143–166
  Title: Software, Sovereignty and the Post-Neoliberal Politics of Exit
And the abstract:

> This paper examines the impact of neoreactionary (NRx) thinking – that of Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Peter Thiel and Patri Friedman in particular – on contemporary political debates manifest in ‘architectures of exit’. We specifically focus on Urbit, as an NRx digital architecture that captures how post-neoliberal politics imagines notions of freedom and sovereignty through a micro-fracturing of nation-states into ‘gov-corps’. We trace the development of NRx philosophy – and situate this within contemporary political and technological change to theorize the significance of exit manifest within the notion of ‘dynamic geographies’. While technological programmes such as Urbit may never ultimately succeed, we argue that these, and other speculative investments such as ‘seasteading’, reflect broader post-neoliberal NRx imaginaries that were, perhaps, prefigured a quarter of a century ago in The Sovereign Individual.


See also this on Thiel/Vance/Yarvin ties (from 2022):

>Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...


These are all concepts related to Curtis Yarvin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin




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