But to summarize it all: Gothic MAGA is basically about destroying America as we know it, government and all. Dissolve the borders and reform the nation as thousands of small countries called “network states”. These “network states” would be owned and controlled entirely by oligarchs, and would compete for citizens the way corporations compete for customers. By necessity, the oligarchs will have total control within their borders. Massive, omnipresent surveillance apparatus to watch and control their citizen customer/workers, but if you don’t like how one network state is oppressing you, you’re free to leave.(Provided of course, the brutal tyrant doesn’t have a rule saying you can’t leave unless it’s in a body bag.) At least, that’s how Curtis Yarvin(aka Mencius Moldbug) puts it. And because he’s also a racist far-right POS, he’s also a eugenicist and thinks because he’s got such a high IQ that naturally he and other high IQ individuals should be in charge. The POTUS would be more like a CEO who works on behalf of the oligarchy, who would be the country’s Board of Directors.
It’s a lot like the early “seasteading” movement, but repackaged because not everyone wants to live at sea.
They basically looked at the entirety of the cyberpunk genre and misunderstood it entirely. They want to be “cool”. Like, pretty much everything Musk does is to get you to like him.
That’s a lot more than I got from it. I saw it came from musk wearing a dark color MAGA hat with gothic font on it while he rambled on about his shitty understanding of how government should work.
So, Behind the Bastards did a special on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) and his “Butterfly Revolution” that’s really good. One of my favorite takeaways was that this guy definitely got the everloving shit bullied out of him as a kid. However, like most incels he refused to believe that he was the problem. Coming from a background of privilege and wealth, he believed it made him naturally superior to everyone else. It certainly didn’t help that his IQ got him recognized by John Hopkins University, and he was selected for a study on “mathematically precocious children”. He was an early adopter of the Internet when he went to college, back when it was Web 1.0. He would post and congregate with other individuals like him on Usenet, before the Eternal September happened.
Th is “gothic maga”?
Google the following:
“Mencius Moldbug” and “Butterfly Revolution”.
But to summarize it all: Gothic MAGA is basically about destroying America as we know it, government and all. Dissolve the borders and reform the nation as thousands of small countries called “network states”. These “network states” would be owned and controlled entirely by oligarchs, and would compete for citizens the way corporations compete for customers. By necessity, the oligarchs will have total control within their borders. Massive, omnipresent surveillance apparatus to watch and control their citizen customer/workers, but if you don’t like how one network state is oppressing you, you’re free to leave.(Provided of course, the brutal tyrant doesn’t have a rule saying you can’t leave unless it’s in a body bag.) At least, that’s how Curtis Yarvin(aka Mencius Moldbug) puts it. And because he’s also a racist far-right POS, he’s also a eugenicist and thinks because he’s got such a high IQ that naturally he and other high IQ individuals should be in charge. The POTUS would be more like a CEO who works on behalf of the oligarchy, who would be the country’s Board of Directors.
It’s a lot like the early “seasteading” movement, but repackaged because not everyone wants to live at sea.
the ancaps reinvented archalelagic confederation but vastly worse and thoroughly corporatist
They basically looked at the entirety of the cyberpunk genre and misunderstood it entirely. They want to be “cool”. Like, pretty much everything Musk does is to get you to like him.
That’s a lot more than I got from it. I saw it came from musk wearing a dark color MAGA hat with gothic font on it while he rambled on about his shitty understanding of how government should work.
So, Behind the Bastards did a special on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) and his “Butterfly Revolution” that’s really good. One of my favorite takeaways was that this guy definitely got the everloving shit bullied out of him as a kid. However, like most incels he refused to believe that he was the problem. Coming from a background of privilege and wealth, he believed it made him naturally superior to everyone else. It certainly didn’t help that his IQ got him recognized by John Hopkins University, and he was selected for a study on “mathematically precocious children”. He was an early adopter of the Internet when he went to college, back when it was Web 1.0. He would post and congregate with other individuals like him on Usenet, before the Eternal September happened.