Damon Laker: I recently wrote a piece for Persuasion titled The Red Pill Pusher. In it, he talks about the man who was one of the first to think and talk this way. Yarvan developed these ideas from 2007 to around 2012 under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug at a blog called Unqualified Reservations. He says real power in the country is wielded by what he calls the cathedral.