April 23, 2007social movementpolitical philosophydemocratic theoryideologymediademocracy
Yarvin launches Mencius Moldbug blog Unqualified Reservations
Curtis Yarvin, a Silicon Valley programmer, launched the pseudonymous blog Unqualified Reservations under the name Mencius Moldbug. Over seven years he wrote roughly one million words arguing American democracy should be replaced with a monarchy run by a CEO. The blog became the foundational text of what Yarvin later called the Dark Enlightenment or neoreactionary movement.