Curtis Yarvin

I have noticed that in the real world, the nominal “impact” of bending Paul Ryan’s ear, or whatever, which is the sad currency of the Respected Public Intellectual, is fool’s gold. Everyone takes it seriously and pretends it is real. Sometimes, rarely, it is slightly real. Generally everyone just pretends, and the pyrite vanishes in a bookseller’s season. Who reads the Respected Public Intellectuals of the ’70s, the ’80s, the ’90s?

Curtis Yarvin, the blogger previously known as “Mencius Moldbug,” in “Three Questions for Richard Hanania,” Gray Mirror [Substack].