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Christopher Cook's avatar

Also, Jefferson was correct that the "consent of the governed" is a moral requirement. But the system he and the pro-constitution Founders created is not especially consensual.

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Dave's avatar

Yarvin is overrated as a "thinker". Case in point:

"His most persuasive contention is that democracy simply doesn’t work very well"

Democracy works just fine as long as you don't extend suffrage to low IQ, cluster-B, high time-preference, r-strategist mutants. It's an economics problem, incentives must be aligned.

In my Hoppean covenant community, voting rights will only be allowed for grandparents of living grandchildren, and only with permission of the grandchildren.

The rest of your criticisms are spot on. Philosopher-kings don't exist, and never will.

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