Ask HN: Thoughts on Curtis Yarvin?

Never heard of him until now, if that tells you anything.

He's like a neoconservative Žižek. His party uses him to confuse and anger opponents, as a method to deflect criticism away from matters concerning policy or influence.

His original bibliography is largely ignored in polsci circles, found most often next to a print copy of Protocols of the Elders or somesuch conspiracy.

He's a windbag and perhaps the best example of how some people really just need a wedgie.

That said, he does raise some interesting points--in extremely roundabout ways--and it's incredibly telling how different people react to him. The amazing amount of butthurt und sturm und drang that comes up whenever urbit is mentioned, for example, is almost always due to political/tribal stuff and not due to technical deficiencies or the deliberate obfuscation of whatever ideas actually might be there.

I think he's basically riding coats of the populist MAGA movement at this point in an almost ESR "I helped make this" sort of way, and while an interesting footnote in the evolution of NRx he's basically just an edgelord with some extra money.

When it seems like someone is using verbosity to obfuscate their lack of substance, they probably are.

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