Gray Mirror
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Gray Mirror

Fascicle I: Disturbance

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Gray Mirror

Fascicle I: Disturbance

About this book

"There is no current narrative, in or out of power, that tells our complete story. Should this disturb you? It should." Curtis Yarvin and Passage Press proudly present Yarvin's first original work exclusive to print with Gray Mirror: Fascicle I, Disturbance. Disturbance is the first in a series of four fascicles—novella-length volumes that compose the full book Gray Mirror. The purpose of Disturbance is to disrupt our sense of where we are. Our historical, political, and philosophical narratives are not infallible, Yarvin tells us, nor are our institutions of public and private power inevitable. Both are the results of contingent historical events. Different stories could be told. Different structures could hold power. In his trademark style of historical and cultural analysis, Yarvin asks: are these systems working out for us? If not, what can we do about it? How can we start living in the truth?

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Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. World optimization for beginners
  3. In praise of arrogance
  4. The wisdom of the past
  5. The wisdom of the present
  6. The present sucks (nontechnically)
  7. Cleveland: making of a city
  8. Bombing the mayor
  9. New first principles
  10. The consensus of history
  11. Breaking the historical window
  12. Political immunology
  13. Dualism and monism in pseudohistorical formulas
  14. The position of political philosophy
  15. The form of the mirror
  16. Irony and possibility
  17. The normal power loop
  18. The evolution of collective opinion
  19. Power in instinct and reality
  20. Actual power in Washington
  21. The art of rebellion
  22. Power living in the truth
  23. The next regime in exile
  24. Regime definition
  25. Mechanics of regime transition
  26. Miss Cox and the Nazis
  27. Essentials of any transition
  28. Resetting the public mind
  29. From partisan to universal
  30. The feeling of liftoff
  31. Narrating the transition
  32. A challenge to the intuitive theory of progress
  33. Self-evaluation of regime sanity
  34. The monochrome prehistory of the modern world
  35. The true outside view
  36. Our historical position
  37. The conveyor belt of ideas
  38. Two mysteries
  39. Questions for the right
  40. Questions for the left
  41. The simple answer
  42. The structure of the next regime
  43. Truly effective altruistic action, again
  44. World optimization and coercive power
  45. Political physics
  46. Effective regime change
  47. When your zeppelin crashes
  48. Stories from an ugly century
  49. The 20th-century totalitarian dictators and their legacy
  50. The axial age of modernity
  51. The margins of safety
  52. Beyond the Marvel movie
  53. The good guys
  54. The bad guys
  55. The problem of 20th-century monarchy
  56. The waning of physical democracy
  57. From democracy to oligarchy
  58. The etiology of political toxicity
  59. The dream from outside the dream
  60. Monarchical world optimization
  61. From oligarchy, through democracy, to monarchy
  62. Secession considered unlikely
  63. Sunsetting the “international community”
  64. The spirit of radical monarchy
  65. A dangerous blind spot
  66. Through regime change to absolute power
  67. The fear and reality of power
  68. Aristotle 101
  69. The body and the brain
  70. The shape of pure oligarchy
  71. Monarchy: running with scissors
  72. Politics, regime change, and culture war
  73. The social-class war
  74. Indirect rule in America
  75. Integration
  76. An afterpill
  77. Next steps