First, of course, because the proposal is immoral, amounting to the imposition of serfdom in a modern society, but also because it is incredibly stupid. Who holds your minister-feudal-lords to account? Who keeps unscrupulous lord-ministers from robbing, raping their new serfs?
No one. That's the attraction.
Do you believe he would object to that?
We need a media ecosystem that can tag the GOP with the views of these reactionary freaks, the way the MSM is able to attribute every fringe weirdo with "leftish vibes" to the Dems. Blake Masters wanted to deport like 90 million people a few days ago, there needs to a political penalty to this!
What system holds the lord-ministers accountable to their duties? And while we're here, what systems holds their *serfs* so accountable? Actual feudal lords had *armies* and couldn't maintain their hold on the peasantry in the face of industrialization. Is the lord-minister gonna have an army?
He is gonna have personalized surveillance devices. Enforcement goes from dirty looks to murder.
I think that’s why they really want AI drones and networked fingerprint-reading guns, so they can use push-button violence. It’s madness. There are plenty of occasions where a revolution without guns topples a regime even in the face of violence.
Again, the answer is "an army" in the sense that he wants the Pentagon to help create the robots. And yes, anyone who wants that level of tech but also wants human slaves is planning to rape them.
"Thank God you're finally here, jackbooted thugs wearing... uh... slightly modified mall-cop uniforms. My new serf, who told me his name was 'Phil Eightmee,' fled my property this morning! It took me 6 hours to notice because he put his air tag on a Roomba and I thought he was just being thorough."
The answer, of course, is that Yarvin imagines a federal-level totalitarian system keeping these folks in place, a racially defined slave class subordinated to elect local pitbosses backed by jackbooted thugs, but make him *say* that and then observe the horror of such a system.
Instead, the next guy is, 'neato, I guess we'll also have to repeal the 14th amendment' instead of "you realize your plan is basically to rebuild the Stalinist system c. 1935, right? Gulag slave labor for some, forced labor under the state for others, maintained by terror? Did that system work?
The fact that it didn’t work is the thing that gets me. These people are so intoxicated with greed and cruelty that they’d destroy the very thing that enables their excess.
The Goose that Laid Golden Eggs has proven to be almost prophetically accurate.
Yes. For 50+ years.
Obviously these fellows aren't real intellectuals in any meaningful sense of the word and that's the point I want to make here: journalists and academics need to stop treating Deneen and Rufo like they are members of the guild, when they're not.
Maybe we need to accept they are in the guild if we can’t kick them out without all the money and influence circling to protect them under cover of “open inquiry.” The guild is rotten. It insists you open our mind wide enough to let your brain to fall out so they can fill it with tripe instead.
They are the same that think Plato's Republic or Hobbes' Leviathan are ideal forms of governance. They are unserious.
That has actually been their plan all along. They want to reintroduce something indistinguishable from chattel slavery. IMHO, worth what you paid. I suspect they also intend to roll the bankruptcy code right back to Imperial Rome AD 5O, and sell debtors into slavery as well.
I mean, it "worked" in the sense that it kept Stalin in power untill he died. And I rather suspect that for all of thier posturing about the common good, that's really all people like Yarvin care about for thier proposed system.
No, his answer is that he's going to build robot soldiers and put chips in all the guns so they only fire for his secret police. Literally, it's like something written by a child.
What he imagines is a worse apartheid, complete with worse dompas.
Sadly, I'm not at all surprised that ghouls like Thiel & Vance follow these racist, misogynisitc freaks. The thing that candidly did surprise me once I scratched the surface is the shocking lack of depth to their thinking. None of what they suggest is practicable. They've thought through *nothing*.
It speaks volumes about the blind lust for power of Vance and Thiel. They have plenty of intellectual bandwidth to immediately spot the massive logical holes and flaws in what Yarvin advocates, but they don't even try.
It seems to me like the intended answer is "God, because He fills His ministers with virtue and therefore a minister is incapable of robbing or raping," Which for Yarvin is apparently an acceptable idea because he is concerned only with gutter racism and sniveling sadism and not reality.
Like, did this guy read "Killers of the Flower Moon" and conclude that the killers were the good guys? (TL;DR the reference: Osage were made wards of white people who then sometimes systematically murdered them to transfer their property to white people.)
The purpose of a system is what it does. A system that is designed to allow that sort of abuse is designed to encourage and protect those immoral acts.
are we sure that Yarvin thinks this kind of behavior from his fantasy neofeudal lords is a problem?
those things are features not bugs to inveterate evil racists like yarvin