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The only places I can find on the web that connect Andreessen or Thiel to Yarvin are mid- to far-left web sites.

I am not claiming that the guy is or isn’t a kook- the article certainly makes him sound like one but I have 0 familiarity or corroborating sources that don’t share a political motivation for demonizing the guy.

I am also not making any assertion about past or present affiliation or shared political values between Thiel or Andreesen, and Yarvin. Again, I have no independent information.

So overall I just don’t care and don’t see that this establishes any sort of pattern or is anything other than a hit piece.

It doesn’t belong here on HN IMO.

Overall, this sounds similar to how the Roman senate chose its emperors, which didn’t work out quite that well, which is why people leaned into democracy.

But besides that, and maybe I need to read the book, but this doesn’t seem to answer why the governed should agree to any social contracts and be governed in this manner.

There needs to be a discussion about liberal ideology and all it encompasses, including the left sides of the spectrum which can get quite grating on some discourse. But I am unconvinced that any enlightenment the world needs next needs to be flavored darkly.