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View submission: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
My question to people like him is why? The already have all the money and power the can desire so really, why?
Comment by anothastation at 19/01/2025 at 08:50 UTC
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They are probably living by the creed of all terrible, evil, bastards: "do what thou wilt". Why? Because they are full of ego, greed, gluttony, hate, desire for power, so that they can pathetically try to fill the gaping void within themselves with all the wrong things.
Comment by Yeeaaaarrrgh at 19/01/2025 at 12:41 UTC
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Because nearly all is never enough for some. It's not about private jets, or mega-yachts, or private islands, or laws not applying to them or what they can or cannot spend in a lifetime, or a thousand lifetimes. It's about control.
In their world, it is their right to control. It is their destiny to control. And why would they think otherwise as they have all the money in the world to prove their point? They must be right or else they wouldn't have the endless fortune they have.
The 1% don't care for the unpredictability of life as that at least leaves the chance that they may not always be in the 1%. So control is needed. They shape education, public perception, media, religion, politics, policy, into the image of their choosing.
You'd think that after centuries of evidence that one underlying rule of thumb would have become a staple in any given society: billionaires should not exist. Because we won't get Bruce Wayne. We'll get Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Comment by watch_out_4_snakes at 19/01/2025 at 10:59 UTC
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Clinical narcissism
Comment by BioSemantics at 19/01/2025 at 19:00 UTC*
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Reality tells them they don't deserve their wealth and power. Whatever work, no matter how much it was, is not worth even a billion dollars, let alone a 100 billion. Their wealth and power far outstrips any reasonable belief they could have that they deserve it, even to delusional morons like Elon. In fact, the more obviously stupid they are the more they are going to work to have reality tell them they are not. So they have to use their wealth and power to change reality to solve this cognitive dissonance. This is why Elon musk has to pretend to be good at video games and has embraced far right fascists on twitter who flatter him at every opportunity. He needs to be able to tell himself he deserves what he has, as if any amount of intelligence or contribution could justify his extreme wealth hoarding.
Comment by Tazling at 19/01/2025 at 09:02 UTC
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something about the bitter, corrosive envy that people who are not really creative and never feel joy in their work experience, when they see that others are fulfilled by creativity and experience joy.
Comment by redlightsaber at 19/01/2025 at 14:22 UTC
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Money can be translated into power, but they're not equivalent.
One of the ways that translation can take place is what we're seeing now.
Comment by ShoppingDismal3864 at 19/01/2025 at 23:09 UTC
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They want a society where pedophilia activity is easy to hide and access to vulnerable children is widespread. It's why it is so often paired with antitransgender activity. Sex and gender education and choices for children is anathema to their sick goals.
Comment by autistic_cool_kid at 19/01/2025 at 09:38 UTC
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When you climb Top 100 Ranked in Overwatch or any other game, the only thing it does to you is convince you to try to be #1
Comment by intull at 04/02/2025 at 00:09 UTC*
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They have all the money and power they can desire, and that's exactly why.
I think it's a "legacy" thing; not necessarily of an individual but rather of a generation/group of people. These people think that, today, we have the necessary resources and technologies to futureproof humanity itself ("humanity" as in human species, not as in being humane/compassionate.)
Today, they have the money and the resources, a populace who are willing to follow them, and they have the reach and direct/indirect power and authority to upend existing societal structures. So, "why not?"
To these people, expansion of all forms is the only nature of growth and the only form of progress that matters. They want humanity and civilization to last tens or hundreds of thousands of years into the future. They want to be the people who are remembered as being consequential for the existence of humanity and civilization 10,000 years from now. They want to be technocrats of today, and technolords of tomorrow, and memorialized as the technogods of the far-future.
In their universe, the rest of us, like much of human history, don't matter. To them, we are just a statistic; mere expectations of gross productivity margins and net liability risks. We are just a data point in their models.
Having this as their vision, they feel emboldened to think they are being reasonable, and right. If you question their motives/approach, you will be dismissed and ignored because you are deemed not having the knowledge and knowing the history and reasonings for why they will argue they are right.
If you still disagree/want out, too bad. They think this is bigger than you, them, and everything that today's societies are about. Hence, not only does your opinion not matter to them, they'll view it as something of negative objective value; ie., your opinions are harmful for the[ir] "greater good"
(My intention is to just out "why", not to imply we're doomed. We have to hope for a future that we believe in, not lose hope, and resist!)