When people look at twentieth century informal monarchies, which are basically any sort of new monarchy trying to be born, they see basically very, very bad results. And so actually, when you look at all across human history, the absolute and normal form of government is monarchy. But it had traditionally been like, oh, this was tried and it doesn't work. So we basically come to this sort of strange reversal in the last 250 years of traditional attitudes in western culture toward these forms of et.
Former computer programmer and political theorist Curtis Yarvin is considered by many to be a dangerous thinker. He has been named in the New York Times and Vanity Fair as a founding member of the burgeoning 'New Right' and caused a stir on Tucker Carlson.
His theories of power seem to have made their way from the fringe blogosphere into the mainstream media. Now, people are trying to make sense of some of what Yarvin wants for the Western nations he criticises and where his thinking might go next.
One particularly bold claim made by Yarvin is that America would be better run as a monarchy, rather than a democracy.
To dig deeper into this esoteric political philosophy, Freddie Sayers invited Curtis Yarvin to the UnHerd studio.
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