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View submission: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
It is horrible, and that is the trajectory of our country now. The plan is to create a crisis/crises to plunge America in chaos. Then, through their lens of mimetic theory, they designate a scapegoat for the captured propagandized masses to rally against and wholeheartedly embrace the dismantling of democracy and installing a series of technomonarchical fiefdoms.
Not even day one and it’s already lunacy with Trump meme coins and him “saving” TikTok for more captured propagandized youth.
Comment by carriedmeaway at 20/01/2025 at 01:32 UTC
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I haven’t yet read the article but it feels like they’ve started a new style Shock Doctrine on us not all too different from what the US would do to central and South America in the 20th century.
Comment by Alexios_Makaris at 20/01/2025 at 04:05 UTC
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The problem with this is it ignores that America isn't Weimar Germany and saying things like "mimetic theory" doesn't magically cause democracy to collapse.
The United States democratic system survived an actual Civil War, one which killed 750,000 people and saw a large segment of the country's territory fall into insurrection. It is extremely unlike that any "manufactured crisis" will approach that.