Once again, how fucked up is it that Mencius Moldbug somehow won the 2010s?

argumate:

lordlyonmain:

Saw Moldbug described as “Ezra Ounce” lol

fuck that’s the kind of diss that would make you want to casually introduce someone to Moldbug just so that you could use it

It’s nuts that when the 2010s were over and done, Mencius Moldbug was one of the figures to come out relevant going forward

I guess neomonarchism is Moldbug’s big thing too, but honestly his “neocameralism” just strikes me like he reformulated the Divine Right of Kings in a modern corporate idiom which, clever enough, but then expanded that into a weirdly specific origin myth for something that hasn’t originated yet

Did Napoleon even have an origin myth? Well he had the refounding event of the Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars, and I guess he stole charismatic thunder from the Revolution itself.

And I mean talk about updating your idioms, within one generation of the world starting to kill kings and locate sacred authority in the people he managed to reformulate monarchy on the basis of THAT VERY IDEOLOGY