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Curtis Yarvin's Monarchal Antifascism

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The political coordinate plane is an interesting one, because it's often presented in an implied context of "what would I choose as my government, were I to decide its nature and orientation," which is a strangely liberal mindset about politics. The idea that choices are made, and not that circumstance and history create in political culture.

Is it possible for a political axis to exist with sufficient dimensions to accurately represent the qualia of a historical political movement? Or is all of this fact-based description of something that has a larger existence?

It might be possible to create a representation of 5 dimensional grid which can model a specific political moment. It may also be desire-able too.

In what context? I think the quantization of politics is ultimately to its detriment, at least as far as theory goes. The spatial relationships and affinities between political systems seem to confuse the matter almost. I struggle to think of what the purpose of a more complex set of coordinates supplies us with true or useful knowledge about a political system.

Primarily a commercial context, think about how much click money that a 5 dimensional political compass could make. We're talking maybe hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong here!

Here is a juicy nugget:

But who will be the new FDR? One name that Yarvin continues to mention (albeit half-seriously) is Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. One of the Red Scare hosts insisted that Ye, as a “man with bipolar disorder” wasn’t capable of the sustained attention required to be president-king. This may be the case, but it may also be the case that Ye will stop using medicalized language, and come to believe that the infinite healing powers of Jesus (and some enforced separation from the schizoid nightmare world of the Kardashians) have restored balance and focus to his mind, and that he does, indeed, have the attention needed to bring America together again. One of the authors of this piece has the questionable “honor” of being the first to seriously suggest West for public office. Instead of running for Mayor of Chicago on a municipal libertarian communist platform, West married into America’s ruling reality television family. The wisdom of this strategy will only be revealed in the fullness of time. If anyone associated with West is reading this and wants a very detailed strategy analysis of how he can become president, they can email pityless at tutanota dot com.

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