The Nihilism of the Ruling Class

Compact Magazine ^ | 12.16.22 | Curtis Yarvin

[EnderWiggin1970]

Very insightful (and witty) article. The author "gets" our current dilemma in American government in the following excerpt:

In every country in the developed world, representative democracy is dead. In its place, we have oligarchy. The way our oligarchy works is very simple. While hymning “democracy,” it has to disable actual representative democracy. It does this by disabling the control of the chief executive over the executive branch.

Broadly speaking, the procedure, budget, and personnel of the agencies is specified by law. Law, of course, comes from the legislative branch. What does it matter if the Founders would never have recognized a 12,000-page appropriations bill, voted on without being debated or even being read, as “law”? The Founders are dead. (Also, they were racists.)

The legislative branch is still nominally democratic, of course. But the nominal power of the voters over Congress is attenuated by five factors. Together these tame the stormy waves of open-ocean democracy to gentle glassy harbor swell.

The first is that incumbency exceeds 98 percent in the House and 90 percent in the Senate. The second is the seniority system, which ensures that sporadic breaches in incumbency produce no serious changes in policy. The third is the fact that Congress has delegated its authority broadly to the agencies. The fourth is the internal continuity of the Hill staffers, plus the external continuity of donors, lobbyists, and activists. The fifth is that no one has any real emotional connection to any election besides the presidency; so the Congress is largely chosen according to who has the largest budget for lawn signs. The sixth… do we need more? The whole Hill is one great fortress against democracy.

[Truthsearcher]

He correctly sees all the problem of our currently leftist culture.

Unfortunately it’s his prescriptions that are wrong.
I see him more as the Boromir character, why not use the enemies’ power against them like Boromir wanted to do with the Ring against Sauron.

That how evil always wins, by tempting us to adopt its ways because of an “utmost need”.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Thanks for sharing that. Interesting, and yet also disappointing, both in many ways. But now at least I have a good feel for where he is coming from.

[Albion Wilde]

He has ideas; but it’s hard for ultra-intellectual folks to get out of their own way sometimes. Hope he does see the light soon so he can eliminate some blind alleys.

[Tijeras_Slim]

A path to the circles of power has developed, through certain schools, acceptance and promotion of certain ideas and ideology, they labor towards power. And at a certain point they get far enough to grab the “brass ring” and move to the level where they are completely unaccountable to anyone.