Curtis Yarvin\nPublic.icon\nCurtis Yarvin\nCurtis Yarvin - Wikipedia\n\s>Curtis Guy Yarvin (born 1973), known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger, software engineer, and internet entrepreneur. He is known for co-founding the philosophical movement of anti-egalitarianism and anti-democracy, known as Dark Enlightenment or NRx, along with another theorist, Nick Land.\n\s\sFrom his blog "Socialist Calculation Debate" which he wrote from 2007 to 2014, and a new page he started in 2020 called "Gray Mirror," he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced by a version of king rule with accountable governance structures similar to those of corporations.\n\s\sThis seems like a completely gov-corp ideologyPrevious companies, interviews and appearances related to oneself.icon.\n\s>Yarvin has been described as a "neoreactionary" and "neo-monarchist," and "sees liberalism as creating a totalitarian system like the Matrix and wants to replace American democracy with a kind of technocracy."\n\s\sDoes neo-monarchist mean neo-monarchism?\n\n\s>Curtis Guy Yarvin9 was born in 1973 into a cultured, secular, liberal family. 10His father was Herbert Yarvin. 11His paternal grandparents were Jewish Americans who were Communists. His father worked for the US government as a diplomat, and his mother was a Protestant from Westchester County. 12 Yarvin spent some of his early childhood abroad, mainly in Cyprus. In 1985, he returned to the US and participated in a longitudinal study of mathematically precocious youths at Johns Hopkins. He graduated from Brown University in 1992 and subsequently enrolled in the computer science Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley, but dropped out after a year and a half to work for high-tech companies. From 1980 to the 1990s, Yarvin was influenced by the libertarian tech culture of Silicon Valley 13. Yarvin had read right-wing and conservative American literature. He was introduced to authors such as Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard by Glenn Reynolds, a libertarian law professor at the University of Tennessee. The rejection of empirical experience and the support of deduction from first principles by Mises and the Austrian School influenced Yarvin's thinking. From 2007 to around 2013, Curtis Yarvin blogged under the name "Mencius Moldbug," based on his critical theory of democracy in government.