American software developer and political blogger who wrote under the name Mencius Moldbug — developing neoreactionary (NRx) political theory arguing that democracy is a failing system, that modern Western institutions are controlled by the 'Cathedral' (university-media complex), and that monarchy is preferable to democracy.
Created the neoreactionary political theory that influenced the alt-right and Silicon Valley reactionary thought — Yarvin's concept of the 'Cathedral' (the de facto established religion of progressive academia and media that controls political discourse without democratic accountability) provided the dominant framework for understanding elite ideological power on the post-2016 right.
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