The Case Against Democracy - Curtis Yarvin

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Curtis Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger. He is known, along with philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neoreactionary movement (NRx). He argues that American democracy is a failed experiment which should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations. SPONSORED BY: Manscaped. Get 20% off and free shipping when you use the code TRIGGER20 at https://www.manscaped.com/ SPONSORED BY: ExpressVPN. Go to https://www.expressvpn.com/trigger/ and get an extra 3 months free on a one-year package! Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The sense in which ideas in this oligarchical system which we call, you know, democracy
0:06.7	tend to prevail over good ideas is that the bad ideas are empowering.
0:12.3	Even if these ideas actually harm these victims, which I would argue, you know, they do, they
0:19.0	feel good.
0:20.0	And the society that we're living in, you know, that, that promotion of bad ideas has gotten
0:26.1	so strong that the bad ideas are now able to use authoritarian techniques to repress
0:32.0	the good ideas.
0:33.2	The mechanism that basically creates that ordination of ideology is promotion rather than
0:40.6	suppression.
0:41.6	It's attraction rather than repulsion.
0:43.4	What about these unbiased, you know, experts?
0:47.4	But the thing is you give power to the experts and power corrupts them.
0:51.7	And suddenly they become, they develop these conflicts of interest, they become sort
0:56.0	of corrupted.
0:57.4	And basically, when you give power to the marketplace of ideas, the marketplace of ideas
1:02.9	corrupts itself.
1:03.9	And you get basically a world of absolutely terrible ideas.
1:08.2	Hello, and welcome to Trigonometry.
1:20.2	I'm Francis Foster.
1:21.2	I'm Constantine Kissen.
1:22.6	And this is a show for you, if you want, on his conversations with fascinating people.
1:27.0	Our brilliant guest today has gone from an anonymous blogger to one of the intellectual
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