Quote Originally Posted by InmostLight View Post
Did you read Yarvin's Cathedral? He talks about how democracies, open marketplaces of ideas, present themselves as "competitive", despite the fact that a surplus of ideas leads to a reduction in quality for the sake of quality. Monarchies, he says, incentivize the greatest of thinkers to hone their ideas and creative pursuits to perfection. In a society where there are restrictions on what is allowed to enter the marketplace of ideas, those with uninspiring and degenerate ideas are weeded out by the cutthroat environment of underground idea-generation. They simply don't have what it takes to pass their opinions on in a world where there is a price to pay for deviancy. Only the truest, most good, and most socially beneficial ideas are allowed to proliferate.
I am familiar with the so-called 'Dark Enlightenment,' and some of their criticisms are legitimate. However, their historicism is wonky, and their prescriptions are strangely and consistently (though sometimes vaguely) reminiscent of routines at Google/Silicon Valley, Facebook, or Amazon. I don't see them as proper monarchists, and they probably do much to poison whatever is left of any authentic monarchist camp, lol. Yarvin believes that governance should be treated as a technical problem to be solved using engineering and corporate management techniques. This is ironically in line with the status quo, and the kings of old surely would have thought this disgusting.