Tech Bros Worship This Weirdo
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:37.9 | I'm here with Will Summer, author of the false flag newsletter. You can get over at the bulwark.com. And I wanted to pull him in because I just read this, I don't know, 50,000 word New Yorker profile on a guy named Curtis Jarvan. For people who don't know Curtis, Will's going to explain that to us. |
| 0:41.7 | But the short of it is he's, if you want to call it a philosopher, |
| 0:46.6 | he's the internet philosopher to the tech oligarchs that want to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a techno-fascism |
| 0:50.9 | or possibly like a benevolent monarchy, depending on the day. |
| 0:55.7 | And so this person is unfortunately extremely influential. |
| 0:59.5 | We have to know about him. |
| 1:00.3 | J.D. Vance reads about him. |
| 1:01.6 | Peter Thiel reads him. |
| 1:03.2 | Mark Andresen reads him. |
| 1:05.0 | Donald Trump doesn't read, but everybody else in the circle does read them. |
| 1:07.9 | So Will Summer, that was my short summary. Why don't for for the uninitiated, why don't I give people a little bit more on Curtis Sharman. Yeah, I mean, that sounded pretty well. I mean, this is a guy who started out as a blogger under the name Menchus Moldbug. So that kind of, he's kind of like scurrying out from the dark web. And basically basically he has a lot of, you know, kind of pretentious sounding ideas, |
| 1:29.8 | but they boil down to that America should be run as sort of a techno-dictatorship by Silicon Valley |
| 1:36.4 | and that anyone, you know, that they don't like, that rich people don't like should be taken care of in, you know, a presumably violent way. And so as you can imagine, |
| 1:47.3 | these people love him because he just says, you know, people like Peter Thiel should be the |
| 1:51.1 | king of America. And so as a result, he's become this sort of beloved figure all the way up to |
| 1:57.0 | J.D. Vance, saying, you know, he has great ideas about perjuring the federal bureaucracy, stuff like that. |
| 2:01.2 | And just to put like an additional finder point in it, like on why we should give this fucker the time of day, |
| 2:06.7 | because, God, I'm reading this article, it's really enough to send you into the depths of despair, |
| 2:11.7 | honestly, that we could be doing a national suicide because of this idiot's blog. He's not an idiot. |
| 2:17.0 | This person who needed to be |
| 2:19.8 | hugged as a child who needed more friends in high school's blog. Maybe he's got he's he's |
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