It appears that Curtis Yarvin, a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug, has been banned from speaking at a major tech conference because of his political opinions.
For those of you who don’t know the name: for several years beginning in 2007 ‘Mencius Moldbug’ wrote, at his blog Unqualified Reservations, a series of essays articulating a new, reactionary synthesis of traditional ideas as a way of understanding the problems of modernity. These essays have been enormously influential in the intellectual circles now known as ‘neoreaction’ or the ‘Dark Enlightenment’. (Perhaps the best introductions to the Moldbug oeuvre are the series of posts gathered here and here. Do have a look.)
I”m sure nobody was less surprised than Mr. Yarvin himself: his excommunication is, as blogger Dante D’Andrea argues here, exactly what neoreaction itself would predict.
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Evelyn Beatrice Hall is turning over in her grave.
I like this “neoreaction” term as it is new to me. Maybe that is why I like Chesterton so much…simple, harmless and quite effective in the face of Progressive mobs who foam at the mouth. I guess GK Chesterton would be a “trigger”? Funny thing about triggers, they cause damage once pulled. How to destabilize the Prog SJW?? They will do that themselves if we the opposition keep the pressure on non-stop.
Trigger Warnings. Jesus, these SJW people are such bloody wimps. Imagine these narcissistic cowards on a wagon train leaving St. Louis. They wouldn’t last 24 hours. And these wimpy, lazy, authoritarians believe the the “heckler’s veto” is a valid form of argument.
“heckler’s veto”. I like that.
Has Moldbug had any public response to this?
If he’s still posting, he must be doing so under a different handle. I haven’t seen anything from him in ages.