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View submission: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
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.
Comment by Prescient-Visions at 20/01/2025 at 04:28 UTC
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I don’t personally subscribe to the mimetic theory but the modern public square where free speech should occur is under total control of a handful of oligarchs. They can use this along with algorithms to scientifically deploy propaganda techniques on the masses. A real crisis, manufactured or not, and the masses directed by propaganda has worked before on eroding liberty.
We have never had this level of technology in human history before and it is accumulated into the hands of a small number of oligarchs. I think it is difficult to gauge the likelihood of success of democracy based on past performance.