Curtis Yarvin, the guru of Trumpism which wants to extinguish democracy – Liberation

Long hair and perfecto on the shoulders, one might think that he is inspired by Slash, the guitarist of the Guns N’Roses. His radical thinking could be summed up in the title of the very first album of the American group: APPTITITE FOR DESTRUCTION. The comparison stops there between the legendary rockers and Curtis Yarvin, computer engineer and « neoreactional » blogger who irrigates the New Look Trumpism, of the vice-president of the United States JD Vance, who says to join his ideas, to the ex-animator of Fox News and Relais of conspiratorial? Curtis Yarvin, 51, who has been going to have been going on since 2020 on his page Gray Mirror, to which his fans can subscribe for 100 dollars per year, wants to end democracy, « A failed experience », And advocates the return to the monarchy, but led by a tech entrepreneur.

His openly obscurantist philosophy holds in a concept with dark accents: the « black lights » (Dark enlightenment, in VO), invented by the British theorist Nick Land in echo of the 18th century lights, which should be extinguished. A few days before the inauguration of Donald Trump, the ideologist gave an interview to the New York Times where he said he did not believe « At all to the vote » and estimated that America should overcome its « Dictators’ phobia ». If it is difficult to know its real influence on the Trumpian power circles, some of its intuitions are