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If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their

dictator phobia.

So said neo-reactionary philosopher Curtis Jarvin in a public talk back in 2012, where he also outlined a strategy that is eerily similar to how Trump and Musk are now destroying our government.

The dark enlightenment blogger, long a transgressive darling of the new right, has in the last two months enjoyed a fresh round of mainstream

exposure. He was hosted controversially on the New York Times podcast and has since been the

subject of pieces in Politico, Time, Newsweek, Financial Times, and Common Dreams. This has led to a

flood of messages to us asking, who is Curtis Jarvin? Well, it turns out I covered him

for a bonus episode that drops on August 12th of last year due to his influence on then VP

candidate J.D. Vance and his Silicon Valley billionaire mentor, Peter Thiel. Yarvin is just

a guy who believes that democracy is dead,

black people are genetically well-suited to slavery,

and America should be run by an all-powerful king who rules like a tech CEO,

and he has the ear of those who are reshaping the world at breakneck speed.

This week in spirituality.

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