Curtis Yarvin is pictured above. Yarvin has been interviewed by David Marchese of The New York Times, and a summary of the interview appeared in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, carrying the title that I have commandeered for the title of my blog posting today. If you can penetrate the paywall that is likely to face non-subscribers, you can read a summary of the interview by clicking the link that I have just provided. Alternatively, you can actually watch the interview on YouTube. Click that second link to watch.
Please be aware of this: Curtis Yarvin is, emphatically, NOT a "nice guy." That is, of course, my personal judgment call. Here's why I say that: Yarvin wants to eliminate democracy in the United States, and to substitute in a dictatorship. He is quite upfront about that. Yarvin says that moving to a "dictatorship" means that we need to get rid of our elected president (and other elected officials) and substitute in a CEO. The way Yarvin sees it, that is what a CEO is - a dictator.
I read The Times' interview with Yarvin last Sunday, and I was appalled. I almost wrote a blog posting about Yarvin's call for a dictatorship last Sunday morning.
I didn't, though, but I was jolted back to my keyboard on Wednesday evening, when I was sent a link to the video below:
The video is about eleven minutes long. I recommend you watch it in its entirety (and that you pay attention). Our recently-elected president does seem to want to act like a CEO, not an elected official who takes direction from the voters. His unilateral (and I am pretty sure illegal) effort to get almost every federal employee to resign, by offering them a payoff at the taxpayers' expense, is just the kind of thing that a CEO-dictator might do. In fact, it is exactly the sort of thing that our president's good friend Elon Musk did after taking over Twitter, and turning it into "X."
The president cannot abolish American democracy and institute a dictatorship unless everyone sits around and watches, instead of doing something about it. It appears, from what Joyce Vance says, that federal employees aren't going along with the "buyout" scheme advanced by our wanna-be dictator-CEO. Thank goodness for that. That's a good example of the kind of things we need to be doing.
Democracy is "done," according to Yarvin. Is he right?
Yarvin will be proven right only if we act like democracy is a recently-released series on Netflix, and we sit back watch each new episode as it is put on the air.
I call "democracy" "self-government." Which means we have to get involved in government ourselves.
"Government" is not a series on Netflix, and we aren't supposed to be sitting around watching it do its thing. Where "government" is at issue, it's our job to write the script! It's our job to remember that we are in charge!
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