DARK GOTHIC MAGA AND THE BUTTERFLY REVOLUTION
A video from Nov. 2024 about what the Tech Bros are thinking and about what’s going to happen when their president is in power.
Four months later, and the what’s going to happen reads like a documentary, so perhaps the information is not just social media misinformation as usual (an extraordinary claim, but some sources may actually have information of interest, however rare).
So, make a readable transcript, add screen shots with information, and minimize the distraction of the (possibly) AI generated blonde host.
But first, vet the source: Blonde Politics, The Silly Serious. A YouTube channel with 23.5K subscribers, 7 videos, this one with 1,017,912 views, joined Dec 15, 2015.
The seven videos:
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- 37:49 Benjamin Netanyahu | Influences (Part 1), 5.9K views, 1 year ago
- 38:34 The Voice to Parliament: Engaging with the No Arguments, 2.2K views, 1 year ago
- 8:04 Girls Guide to the French Protests, 2K views, 1 year ago, Apr 15, 2023
The video is a look into how the tech leaders may be using the new administration to achieve their own agenda. Looking specifically at Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andressen, Ben Horotwitz, Brian Armstrong, and David Sacks as well as their relationship with figures like JD Vance, Balaji Srinivasan, and Curtis Yarvin.
There is a focused discussion on how a shaping of the government might take place based on convergences between the ideas of Yarvin, who influences the tech libertarian right, and Project 2025, who have authored a playbook exclusively for President Trump to help with his transition to power. — | Nov 13, 2024
And the alleged information
I’m wondering which of the Tech Bro billionaires (the only ‘normal’ one, ?) are behind this video channel. Or it’s the guy who cuts hair at the local barbershop, who’s not actually the butch libertarian he pretends to be — she’s my wife, so there are some things I know more of than you do. But lets get back to the Tech Bros and their Butterfly Revolution (see ‘’).
AI Summary
The conversation reveals a dark agenda by tech billionaires to influence U.S. politics and create self-governed territories. Key figures like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Balaji Srivastava advocate for a network state model, aiming to replace traditional nation-states with tech-run territories. They envision a future where tech elites control their own governance, often described as a “network state” or “patchwork” of mini-countries. This ideology aligns with Project 2025, which outlines steps for a presidential takeover, including purging bureaucracy, centralizing power, and co-opting Congress. The conversation highlights the potential for a tech-driven autocratic shift in the U.S.
Silicon Valley’s Influence on the Election
- Ben Horowitz expresses a sense of liberation from repression, feeling happier each day.
- Brian Aromstrong discusses the potential for Republicans to maintain an electoral majority due to the influence of the tech industry.
- Blonde highlights the significant investment in the election by the tech industry, particularly in crypto, which accounts for more than half of corporate spend.
- The tech industry seeks lower taxes, friendly regulation, and the removal of the Federal Trade Commission head, with a preference for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over the Securities Exchange Commission.
Silicon Valley’s Vision for America’s Future
- Blonde explains that behind the tech industry’s financial influence is a dark agenda, with Tech Bros believing in the imminent collapse of the American Empire.
- These Tech Bros aim to use the coming administration to create safe havens for themselves and their wealth, where they can govern independently.
- Blonde mentions that these beliefs are not speculative but are openly expressed by tech leaders in various forums.
- Peter Thiel discusses the need for a better elite to replace the current one and the importance of money and property in building a desirable society.
The Idea of Tokenizing Real Estate and Governance
- Armstrong is interested in tokenizing real estate and physical land to create better forms of society and governance.
- Elon Musk believes that people on Mars will be more enlightened and less prone to conflict.
- Horowitz describes tech libertarian futurism as an ideology that enhances human freedom through technology.
- Andrew Tahmooressi discusses the need to fix government in the US and the shift from the wisdom of crowds to the madness of crowds.
The Role of Key Tech Figures
- Blonde lists key tech figures like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Brian Armstrong, Mark Andresen, Ben Horowitz, and David Sacks, who are influential in the tech industry.
- Balaji Srivisa, a former partner of Andres and Horowitz, is highlighted for his book “The Network State” and his involvement in the tech scene.
- Balaji’s ideas include breaking nation-states into smaller, tech-run territories protected by military-grade security.
- The concept of patchwork, proposed by Curtis Yarvin, involves replacing crappy governments with a global network of sovereign, independent mini-countries governed by joint stock corporations.
The Network State and Praxis
- Praxis, a network state funded by Peter Thiel, Mark Andresen, Balaji, and Sam Altman, aims to build corporate governments with a global footprint.
- The website for Praxis states that as local communities dissolve and nation-states stumble, network states will ascend.
- Coronavirus Capital is funding other network states, including Prospera in Honduras, Afropolitan Itana, and Small Farm Cities in Africa.
- The goal of these network states is to build cities with crypto as currency and to create a new global superpower.
The Seasteading Institute and Tech Zionism
- The Seasteading Institute envisioned building floating cities outside government jurisdiction, funded by billionaires.
- Balaji talks about tech Zionism, a movement to take back territory in cities and create private property footholds.
- The concept involves pushing out “blues” (opponents) and creating sanctuary cities that side with the movement.
- Trump’s idea of Freedom Cities, creating new cities on federal land, aligns with this vision.
Peter Thiel’s Influence and Project 2025
- Peter Thiel’s $15 million investment in JD Vance’s Senate campaign highlights his influence on the tech industry.
- Thiel’s manifesto, “The Education of a Libertarian,” disavows electoral politics and democracy, believing that great men should make decisions unbridled by the law.
- Project 2025, with similar goals to the tech industry, includes a transition plan for the President’s eyes only.
- The butterfly revolution, proposed by Curtis Yarvin, involves running on autocracy, purging the bureaucracy, and ignoring the courts.
The Role of Media and Academic Institutions
- Yarvin believes that true power in America is held by the Cathedral, a term for elite media and academic institutions.
- Vance and Trump have expressed disdain for academic institutions and have proposed measures to monitor universities for civil rights violations.
- Trump has threatened to revoke licenses of existing media stations and to reclaim universities from Marxist control.
- The goal is to dismantle these institutions to control the narrative and distort reality.
The Butterfly Revolution and Its Implications
- The butterfly revolution involves campaigning on autocracy, purging the bureaucracy, and ignoring the courts.
- Trump’s Schedule F executive order, which aimed to strip protections from civil servants, aligns with Yarvin’s ideas.
- Project 2025’s Maga LinkedIn platform pre-streams candidates for loyalty, and the Presidential Administration Academy preemptively educates future employees.
- The goal is to create a national police force and to shut down elite media and academic institutions.
The Long-Term Vision of Silicon Valley
- Silicon Valley Tech Bros are long-term thinkers, planning years into the future.
- The reboot conference, focused on creating a new reality, featured a secret guest speaker, Kevin Roberts, discussing tech and the American republic.
- The point of putting Vance in the VP position was to introduce him as the new blueprint of the Republican Party.
- The ultimate goal is to co-opt the government to destroy the country and allow self-described great men to install themselves as many kings.
Transcript
Ben Horowitz 0:00
So it felt like a boot off the throat, like every morning I wake up happier than the day before because all of these forms of repression that I just had gotten used to disappeared so far up their own woke asses. If those people [] stay in control, I think that the Republicans could have an electoral majority as far as the eye can see.
Brian Armstrong 0:17
It’s really the dawn of a new crypto era.
Elon Musk 0:19
The future is gonna be amazing!
Blonde 0:25
More than any other sector, the tech industry invested in this election, crypto accounts for more than half the corporate spend with no other industry coming close.
Blonde 0:33
It’s not unusual for industry to use their money to buy influence, and at a superficial glance, that’s all the tech VC [venture capital] world wants. They want lower taxes and friendly regulation. They want the head of the Federal Trade Commission out. They want the tech industry to be responsive to the future commodities trading commission, not the Securities Exchange Commission. Except that’s not all they want. Behind the money and influence flowing into the Trump campaign are said of bizarre beliefs and a dark agenda.
Elon Musk 1:01
I’m not just MAGA, I’m Dark Gothic. MAGA.
Blonde 1:06
You see, the Tech Bros of Silicon Valley believe that the American Empire is on the verge of collapse. Silicon Valley wants to speed this up, but use the coming administration to create safe landing zones for them and their cash where they can also run their own governments. And what is so annoying about this is it makes me sound crazy. Makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I am talking about crazy people. I am talking about the guy who wants to colonize Mars. I am talking about the guy who said he gave up on democracy in 2009. These Tech Bros justify their point of view because they believe that that’s the natural place in society, the courageous geniuses on the new frontier. I’m not speculating. These men say it. They say it on podcasts and at conferences and in interviews and in blog posts. Some are quiet. Some are very, very loud, but they all are on board.
Peter Thiel 2:03
And I think that if we want to increase freedom, we want to increase the number of countries.
Ben Horowitz 2:07
If you want to replace the elite that you have today, what you need to do is, you need to have a better elite. And there’s a way to do this.
Brian Armstrong 2:11
It’s been done before, we get kind of money and property right, and that it’s a strong foundation for building, you know, kind of a world that we all want to live in. We’re seeing some breakdown of those in the real world, in the United States lately.
Brian Armstrong 2:27
I’m definitely very interested in ways that you can sort of tokenize real estate and actual physical land to create better forms of society and governance. I do think America is in slow decline right now. Who would like us all in crypto? Think about how we actually go, create physical places in the world to preserve freedom over the long term? I think that’s ultimately, cryptos destiny.
Elon Musk 2:50
The people of Mars will be more enlightened and will not fight amongst each other too much.
Ben Horowitz 2:56
It’s basically tech libertarian Futurism and ideology around technology and including technology enhancing human freedom.
Joe Lonsdale 3:02
I am, I am trying to fix government in the US. The point was like, let’s have a new government.
Andrew Tahmooressi 3:07
Where do we sort of go from the wisdom of crowds to the madness of crowds? We’re far too far on the on the side that you can describe as collectivist, centralized Borg, like conformist and and also generally just simply incorrect.
David Sacks 3:22
I think that what Elon’s doing is showing a path to fighting back. The left wing elites going to be kicking and screaming the whole way.
Blonde 3:28
Mark Cuban, one of the more normal billionaires, had this to say about this particular group of men that I’m talking about.
Mark Cuban 3:29
What’s happened in Silicon Valley is insane, right? It’s, it’s not so much a support thing, it’s more like a takeover thing, trying to put themselves in a position to have as much control as possible. They want Trump to be the CEO of the United States of America, and they want to be the board of directors. That makes him listen to them.
Blonde 3:54
Now, this hypothetical board includes a couple of power players that I think are worth keeping an eye on, namely Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Brian Armstrong, Mark Andresen, Ben Horowitz and David Sacks.
In this video, I’m going to try and lay out what I think these people are doing behind the scenes. If you do want to dive further into this topic, I recommend looking at the work of Gildaran, I have linked his blog below. This is his beat, and he’s amazing at it. This man is named Balaji Srivisa, like Beyonce, h4e tends to only go by his first name. Balaji is highly involved in the tech scene, and while not a billionaire himself, he is friends with a lot of them. He’s a former partner of Andres and Horowitz. He is the former CTO of Brian Armstrong’s Coinbase.
Thiel actually recommended Balaji to be the head of the FDA during the first Trump administration. Balaji wrote a book. It’s called the network state, how to start your own country. In that book, he talks about how to break nation states apart into smaller territories, which can then be run like corporations.
Balaji 5:00
I mean by Silicon Valley’s ultimate exit, it basically means build an opt in society, ultimately outside the US, run by technology. And this is actually where the Valley is going.
Blonde 5:10
You see, like many in the industry, Balaji is a disruptor. He is interested in disrupting the current idea of nationhood through the creation of a network of sovereign tech run territories protected by military grade security. Balaji wasn’t the first person to come up with this idea, not even in the tech scene, but he was the first person to present it in a more palatable way. The idea actually comes from someone named Curtis Yarvin In patchwork.
Yarvin wrote The basic idea of patchwork is that as the crappy governments we inherited from history are smashed, they should be replaced by a global spider web of 10s, even hundreds of 1000s of sovereign and independent mini countries, each governed by its own joint stock corporation, without regard to the residents opinions.
Patchwork is a reboot of the current system in order to install a new operating system. Yes, Yarvin is a software developer with a company named Urbit, invested in by Peter Thiel. He refers to these small territories as patches, but he’s flexible about how they might run, maybe like a corporate urban space or a city state like Athens, these corporate dictatorships would use all seeing surveillance to protect their citizens and enforce their laws. There would be biometric IDs. If you’re poor, you will have to move to another patch, or the poor could be ground up and used as biodiesel or locked into a virtual reality prison. Now, Yarvin said he was joking about the biodiesel thing, but not about the prison thing.
So I’m not sure if he was joking about the bio diesel, which gives us an understanding of why Balaji had to come up with more appealing way to present this idea. Balaji has less about dictatorship and mass incarceration and more about freedom and opportunity. A lot of people in the industry acknowledge that Balaji’s Ideas are a little out there. ‘This is Balaji…’, and I would dismiss them too if those same people weren’t actively funding them.
Millions of dollars are being funneled into these projects as we speak. This is the website for Praxis, a network state funded by Peter Thiel, Mark Andresen, Balaji, and Sam Altman through their shared capital fund, Pronomis, which is dedicated to funding the creation of network cities.
The website for Praxis says, “as local communities dissolve and nation states stumble, network states will ascend. The next global superpower will be a network state. The next America will be on chain.”
The stated goal of Praxis is to build a corporate government with a global footprint. It will have territories all over the world. Crypto will be its currency. The modern global system, once the greatest power in the history of man, has become a brittle, jerry rigged contraption incapable of carrying out the most basic functions.
As these governing institutions continue to degrade, people will come to realize that no one is truly on their side. As nation states falter, network states become inevitable. I should mention that Pronomis Capital is funding the creation of other network states, many of which are further along than praxis.
Some examples are prospera in Honduras, Afropolitanitana and small farm cities in Africa, Metropolis in Palau and I think young drunk city is planned for South Asia on Pronomis’ website, they claim decades of research on economic development has shown that the primary determinant of prosperity is the quality of a country’s laws and the integrity of its courts, administrators and other legal institutions.
When institutions are outmoded, corrupted or failing, the result is untold human suffering, yet upgrading national institutions is notoriously difficult. Our solution, build the cities of tomorrow. Right now they are creating cloud communities, virtual nations.
Once they have access to land, they will get their citizens to migrate to that city. Have a look at the pledge that you sign when you join Praxis, which you can join right now.
By the way, Pronomis isn’t actually Peter Thiel’s first flirtation with exiting democracy either. In 2009 he funded the Seasteading Institute.
Peter Thiel 9:14
I want to say some things on why I think seasteading is not just possible or desirable, but why it is actually necessary?
Blonde 9:23
The Seasteading Institute envisioned building these floating cities in the ocean outside of government’s jurisdiction, where billionaires could live and create as they saw fit. This idea kind of ran out of steam, because nobody wants to live at sea, especially not billionaires, which means they need land. But how do we get from a nation state to a network state?
Balaji 9:43
And this is actually related to a fundamental concept in political science, the concept of voice versus exit. If a company or a country is in decline, you can try voice or you can try exit.
Voice is basically changing the system from within, whereas exit is leaving to create a new system, a new startup, or to join a competitor sometimes. there’s
Blonde 10:03
There’s another way that Balaji also talks about how this could possibly happen. He calls it Tech Zionism.
Balaji 10:08
You know, what I’m really calling for is something like Tech Zionism, a movement supported by a global network to take back territory in the city, floor by floor, street by street, block by block, policeman by policeman. You have a foothold of private property, and you have a group membership of great tribe membership and private property. You also issue T shirts. At the tribal lens, it’s like a virtual reality filter. Every single thing can be tagged as gray or blue in the city. I mean, like literally. So Gray is the future, red is the past, blue is the present. So blue stands against both the past and the future. They’re against both the self driving cars, and they don’t want to go back to 50s. They prefer only fans. Me too. BLM, Ukraine, the hard part is to take control the streets. How can you fence off a street and make clear that it’s under Gray control? Take total control of your neighborhood. Push out all Blues. Tell them they’re as unwelcome as just as Blues ethnically cleanse me out of San Francisco like push out all Blues who has lost some territory in the cloud, they still control the land. Once Grays starts taking back control the land that they’re really going to howl as they start losing, they’re going to whistle for backup from California and eventually DC, okay, they’re going to try to get executive orders or things like that, which means you’re going to need to have sympathizers at the level of California and DC who will side with you enough to block those actions, number one. And or number two, you actually get to the level of a sanctuary city, you say, I dare you.
Blonde 11:42
Keep in mind, actions like this are already being attempted in places like Solano County, where they’re trying to build California Forever, or the actions that Gary Tan is taking in San Francisco. But the people in these areas are putting up a fight, and it’s costly, and it’s slowing everything down. Fortunately, Trump is talking about something called Freedom Cities. The creation of new cities on federal land.
Donald Trump 12:05
Almost 1/3 of the land mass of the United States is owned by the federal government, with just a very, very small portion of that land, just a fraction, one half of 1% would you believe that we should hold a contest to charter up to 10 new cities and award them to the best proposals for development. These Freedom Cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination.
Blonde 12:35
I wonder where he got that idea. This is where JD Vance comes in. JD Vance is seen as a mild mannered, well spoken success story, populist who was born into tough circumstances in Appalachia, but managed to pull himself up by his bootstraps, graduate from Yale Law, become a best selling author, become a tech venture capitalist, only to give all of that up for public service when he was officially tapped on the shoulder for the vice presidential nomination. Many of his former colleagues celebrated. Elon Musk, David Sacks, Mark Andresen and Balaji all tweeted their congratulations.
After all, it was a strange choice for Donald Trump, especially compared to Mike Pence, but when it comes to JD Vance, a lot of people make strange choices. Peter Thiel invested $15 million in his campaign to become senator, the largest single donation to a Senate campaign in history. JD Vance is an extension of Peter Thiel. That doesn’t mean that he is beholden to him, but it does mean that Peter Thiel has had such a huge influence on JD Vance’s life, that you cannot understand him without first understanding who Peter Thiel is.
Andrew Tahmooressi 13:46
I’m Peter Thiel. I build companies and I support people who are building new things.
Blonde 13:51
I would say Peter Thiel is the most honest representation of what Silicon Valley is today, worth up to $9 billion dollars, extremely well connected. He started off as a member of the PayPal Mafia, the guys who invented PayPal, and they originally intended for that to be a libertarian alternative to the US dollar, when it wasn’t that and they sold out.
He used the money that he made from PayPal to invest in other companies, including being the first outside investor in Facebook. And today, he has invested in a huge portion of the tech industry, including companies like Sam Altman’s open AI.
He’s also a big deal in the tech defense sector. He owns Palantir, which is a surveillance software that is basically omnipresent in the US government. It’s used by the CIA, FBI, ICE, Homeland Security, various police forces. Palantir is also used by private companies such as Cambridge Analytica.
In 2009 Thiel wrote a manifesto called The Education of a Libertarian. In this manifesto, he disavows electoral politics and democracy because he doesn’t trust the people with big decisions, and he’s come to believe that democracy and freedom are inherently incompatible.
Over time, he has talked extensively about finding areas where great men can make choices as they see fit, unbridled by the law.
Thiel gave the Trump campaign $1.25 million.
Andrew Tahmooressi 15:14
What Trump represents isn’t crazy, and it’s not going away. He points toward a new Republican Party. He points even beyond the remaking of one party to a new American politics.
Blonde 15:27
And in return, he got an office in the Trump Tower where he had the president’s ear and suggested candidates for his administration. Some of his selections didn’t make the cut, like Balaji, but some did. Michael Kratsios was put in as the chief technology officer of the United States of America, a position I did not know existed.
And Michael Anton was put on the National Security Council. Michael Anton wrote a very concerning essay called the Flight 93 election, which I have linked below. And it is very enlightening about who Peter Thiel thinks belongs on the National Security Council, and remember Curtis Yarvin, who we were talking about before. He is often referred to as Thiel’s in house philosopher. Thiel has not only invested in a number of Yarvins businesses, but he keeps Yarvin in his inner circle. Yarvin watched the 2016 election from Peter Thiel’s house, where they celebrated with champagne at Thiel’s successful investment in the Trump campaign.
And while Peter Thiel may not be as explicit in his beliefs as someone like Balaji or Elon or even Mark Andresen, Yarvin assured Milo Yiannopoulos over email that Peter Thiel was fully enlightened. Just plays it very carefully. People in the new right circles refer to yarvin as Lord Yarvin or the Prophet. This isn’t someone on the fringe of the movement. This is someone who is respected, just like Peter Thiel. JD Vance is an avid reader and friend of Curtis Yarvin.
JD Vance 16:55
There’s this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who’s written about some of these things.
Blonde 16:59
Vance not only name checks Curtis Yarvin, but he often uses his languages and repeats his ideas.
Speaker 1 17:05
You actually popularized the term Red pill in the political context. Is that? Right?
JD Vance 17:10
Yeah, that’s actually true.
JD Vance 17:10
Is this concept of red pilling?
Blonde 17:13
Yarvin writes a lot of strange things, but one thing I’m particularly interested in is the blueprint he wrote for Donald Trump. It’s called the Butterfly Revolution. It’s quite radical, and another thing that would be easy to dismiss, but here’s a clip of Yarvin talking about why he thinks it would be successful today.
Curtis Yarvin 17:27
Pins of 2024 are incredibly frivolous, incredibly ironic. It is the most ironic society in history. Imagine people trying to cope with a film like The Matrix or Inception in like 1960. Total frame breaking of this kind, in some ways, is actually easier than the sort of incremental political logic that people have employed in the past. They can sort of more easily imagine, oh, man, it’s all The Truman Show. In fact, they mostly already believe that it’s all The Truman Show, they just don’t understand the implications of that.
Blonde 18:03
Something I find concerning is the many ways that the Butterfly Revolution perfectly aligns with Project 2025. Not a huge amount of the Tech Bros in Silicon Valley are religious. But that doesn’t really stop these kinds of groups working together. Definitionally, both of these movements are fascistic. Fascism has never been a fully coherent ideology. That’s one of the things that gives fascism its strength, its ability to bring together groups from different movements, all of whom see fascism as a viable mechanism to achieving their own program. And that’s why some people say that fascism is always hyphenated. So it’s always going to be tech-fascism and Christian-fascism, but these people can work together, and they do.
Andrew Tahmooressi 18:45
One of the things that evangelicals and libertarians should agree on is that the political order is not divinely ordained. Amen .
Blonde 18:53
Project 2025 has similar stated goals to the tech industry, in particular, the dismantling of the administrative state and the return of self governance to the people project 2025.
Is made up of four pillars, and pillar four is the playbook. It is a transition plan for the President’s eyes only will be rolled out upon the President’s utterance of ‘so help me, God’. We don’t know what’s in this playbook, but given the alignment of talking points, key figures being involved in both. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was similar to the Butterfly Revolution, and I think that’s worth investigating. The Butterfly Revolution, step one campaign on autocracy.
Donald Trump 19:33
He says, you’re not going to be a dictator, are you? I said, No, no, no. Other than day one.
Blonde 19:38
Yarvin says that Donald Trump should run on his autocratic ambition, but he should frame it as a destroying and inefficient and unworkable system.
JD Vance 19:45
We are in the late Republican period. If we’re going to push back against it, we have to get pretty, pretty wild and pretty far out there and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.
Ben Horowitz 19:53
We are in the process of the Second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be.
Blonde 19:59
Step two, purge the bureaucracy. Curtis Yarvin refers to this as RAGE.
Curtis Yarvin 20:05
RAGE stands for Retire All Government Employees.
Blonde 20:12
And he has clearly influenced some very important people.
JD Vance 20:16
I think that what Trump should do like if I was giving him one piece of advice, fire every single mid level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state.
Blonde 20:25
And we know that Donald Trump would be open to RAGE because it sounds a lot like Schedule F, an executive order issued by Donald Trump in October of 2020. Schedule F would have essentially stripped protections from civil servants who didn’t show enough loyalty to the president of the day, which is why Joe Biden rescinded this order the second he came into office in January of 2021, but Trump has said he plans to reinstate it.
Donald Trump 20:48
First, I will immediately reissue my 2020 Executive Order, restoring the President’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats, and I will wield that power, very aggressively.
Blonde 20:59
But how could you accomplish that so quickly? I mean, you need civil servants. Don’t worry. Project 2025 is already on it. Pillar two of Project 2025, could be considered MAGA LinkedIn. This platform is designed to pre stream candidates for their loyalty and streamline the appointments process.
Conservative 21:18
We talk about conservative warriors, but we want people who have been canceled, who’ve kind of figuratively given blood for the movement.
Blonde 21:25
You can join it right now. Then pair that with pillar three, which is an online education platform known as the Presidential Administration Academy, and you have preemptively educated all future employees on what is expected of them from the conservative administration.
Step three, ignore the courts. According to Yarvin, the president should simply state that he believes Madison V Marbury was decided incorrectly. Declare a state of emergency, and that way Supreme Court rulings would be merely advisory.
JD Vance 21:55
When the courts stop you stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say the Chief Justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.
Blonde 22:02
But thanks to recent Supreme Court decisions, he may not even need to do that.
ABC News 22:06
The High Court has just issued one of its most consequential rulings in recent decades, a decision that not only affects the 2024 race for president, following last week’s contentious debate, but also the future of the presidency itself.
Blonde 22:19
Trump vs United States has laid the groundwork to ensure that Donald Trump can ignore the court. Now the President has absolute immunity for court official acts and presumptive immunity for all other official acts, a distinction that has not been clarified by the court with only a few examples being provided and absolutely no guard rails to stop the misuse of this decision being put in place.
Joe Biden 22:45
Today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits what the President can do, because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States. The only limits will be self imposed by the president alone.
Blonde 23:01
Step four, co opt Congress. Yarvin suggests that Trump handpick candidates for every single seat, with the sole criterion being personal loyalty to him, because you can’t have a parliamentary dictatorship if you don’t have Congress. And while it seems like a big task, Yarvin assures us you only need a couple of billion dollars. I know some people with a few billion dollars, while Peter Thiel may have decided to sit this election cycle out Elon Musk, Mark Andres and Brian Armstrong have not.
Donald Trump 23:30
We got to get the congressman elected, and we got to get the senators elected, because we can take the Senate pretty easily. And I think with our little secret, we’re going to do really well with the house, right? Our little secret is having a big impact. He and I have a secret. We’ll tell you what it is when the race is over.
Blonde 23:48
Step five, centralize police and government powers in this declared state of emergency. Yarvin suggests that Trump take direct control over all law enforcement agencies, federalize the National Guard and effectively create a national police force that absorbs local bodies.
Curtis Yarvin 24:04
I think that actually the support of the democratic public is a cipher. I think that actually all you need is command of the police.
Blonde 24:10
This is so that a centralized police state can be created to back the power grab. And I’d say there’s no way this could happen if Donald Trump hadn’t tried to do it before we know that he sent the National Guard during the George Floyd protests,
Donald Trump 24:25
And that I was insistent on having the National Guard go in and do their work. It was like a miracle that just everything stopped.
Blonde 24:33
And we know that he wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act.
Donald Trump 24:37
If the state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.
Blonde 24:51
Now there are, of course, protections within the law, Posse Comitatus, to stop a president from doing this, but Donald Trump has found. Loophole before. I’m sure he’ll find one again, especially in a state of emergency where he has absolute immunity for core official acts
Blonde 25:07
Step six, shut down elite media and academic institutions. Yarvin has explicitly said that you cannot have a New York Times or a Harvard past April. He has a popular theory that true power in America is held by something he calls The Cathedral, a term that should alert you whenever you hear it to this kind of thing. The Cathedral is made up of elite media and academic institutions that, according to Yarvin, set the bounds of acceptable political discourse and distort reality to conform with their ideological beliefs.
Curtis Yarvin 25:39
So The Cathedral is essentially performing the functions that a Ministry of Truth would perform in a classic Orwellian environment, and it’s performing the functions that a religion would in a classic theocracy.
Blonde 25:54
Therefore existing media and academic institutions need to be dismantled. Vance has been quite vocal about his disdain for academic institutions, despite graduating from Yale and often repeats Yarvins ideas in his own words.
JD Vance 26:08
So much of what we want to do in this movement in this country, I think, are fundamentally dependent on going through a set of very hostile institutions, specifically the universities, which control the knowledge in our society, which control what we call truth and what we call falscity. That provides research that gives credibility to some of the most ridiculous ideas that exist in our country. And so I think if any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country and for the people who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.
Blonde 26:40
Trump has said that, if elected, he will reclaim the universities from the Marxist Maniacs and lunatics who currently control them. How will he do this?
Donald Trump 26:49
When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics. We will then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges.
Blonde 27:07
In his agenda 47 Trump has proposed a law to monitor universities for civil rights violations.
Donald Trump 27:13
I will advance a measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment.
Blonde 27:19
That means he could essentially put an institution like Harvard out of business overnight. Elon Musk spends a significant portion of his time trying to undermine existing media in favor of his own platform X. Trump has absolutely no problem getting rid of legacy media. He has repeatedly talked about the government’s licensing of broadcast airwaves, and about 15 times threaten to revoke licenses of existing stations.
Donald Trump 27:46
And it’s frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it.
Blonde 27:53
Step seven, turn out your people. Get your people out on the street to show their support for you any time a government agency tries to obstruct you. Yarvin says this should be like the post Soviet revolutions. It should be masses of people. It should be joyful, and we know that Donald Trump has no problem in asking people to physically show their support for him.
Donald Trump 28:13
We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength.
Blonde 28:24
Once this Butterfly Revolution has taken place and the presidency looks more like a CEO or a King, the court of tech geniuses will have a much more realistic shot at getting what they want. One thing I can tell you about these Silicon Valley Tech Bros is that they are long term thinkers. They are planning for years and years and years into the future. In case you needed more evidence that Silicon Valley and Project 2025 are in bed together, there is this strange tech conference called reboot, and in September, at the last Reboot Conference, which is all about creating a new reality, there was a special secret guest speaker. That secret guest speaker ended up being Kevin Roberts, who gave a speech titled Tech and the American Republic. The point of trying to put Vance in the VP position wasn’t just to have him one heartbeat away from an old and alien president. It was to introduce him to the world as the new blueprint of the Republican Party to provide a strong option for a post MAGA Republican party, a party that will co opt the government to destroy the country in order to allow self described great men to install themselves as many Kings.
Chapters Introduction The Dark Agenda of Tech VCs Networks and Patchworks: Reinventing the State - Praxis and Pronomos – Making it a Reality – Vance, Thiel, and Yarvin – Tech and Project 2025 Butterfly Revolution Step 1: Campaign on Autocracy Butterfly Revolution Step 2: Purge the Bureaucracy Butterfly Revolution Step 3: Ignore the Courts Butterfly Revolution Step 4: Co-Opt the Congress Butterfly Revolution Step 5: Centralise Police and Powers Butterfly Revolution Step 6: Shut Down Elite Media and Academic Institutions Butterfly Revolution Step 7: Turn Out the People Conclusion
Resources GIL DURAN’S WORK: The Network State: Patchwork: Praxis: Pronomos: Education of a Libertarian: Founders Fund: Palantir: The Seasteading Institute: Buzzfeed Article on Yarvin Email: Flight 93 Election Essay: The Butterfly Revolution: Project 2025: follow me :) instagram: / thesillyserious twitter: / joannacrichards youtube: / @blondephilosophy youtube: / @blondepolitics twitch: tiktok: / @blondepolitics substack: thesillyserious
And This Is an Old Story
At some point, before Rome fell, the aristocracy could see it coming. Okay, so we need to preserve Western Civilization by exit and we need to found magnificent sovereign Villa’s of Rome where art, and literature (and slaves and Pretorian Guards) can continue to serve elites as Zeus (or Jesús, aka hay-SOOS) demands. It is all going to be good.
The last President (Emperor) of Rome’s job ended 476 CE (he wasn’t living in Rome) when no one even wanted the job/title, but the first sacking of Rome the city was in 410 CE, then again in 455 CE, and then for a few weeks the Ostrogoths had a bit of fun in 547 CE in the ruins habited by a few hundred locals that didn’t have much for the taking except for a bit of food and a few wenches.
Meanwhile, some of the Roman elite where living the good life, as planed, in the sections of the Empire they had been granted (or had taken) to rule over. It was a beautiful life (for a time).
No one knows when the last Roman Potentate died in luxury in his sovereign country estate (having devoted his life to saving Western Civilization), but happily it was before the Pretorian Guards and overseers couldn’t be paid anymore if only in food, wine, and wenches.
At some point the Pretorian Guards looted the last villa (somebody had to), and the rest could have been history if there were any literates left who had the slightest interest in telling future historians what had been going on. But the collapse was slow and mild, and in monasteries some literates and Greco-Roman writings persisted.
And in 800 CE, when the Pope of the new Holy Roman Empire anointed the great warlord of the Franks Charlemagne to be Emperor, there was nothing holy, Roman, nor an empire left apart from ideas associated with some Latin words and names.
But as collapses go, it was a quite moderate one (historically, about 20% of systemic collapse events end in a reboot, i.e. if there is no one to conquer them). If Western Civilization never collapses, (or in the worse imaginable case to Tech Bros does, but reboots in a few decades as all right-thinking modern humans presuppose), then we don’t need to think about changing our form of civilization. .
And 87,568 Praxians and $691.8 billion dollars (the value of Praxian-Founded Companies) and counting already have. Who wouldn’t want to go down with the winners?
The Tech Bros and Roman Aristocracy are/were both cluelessly unaware of the complex, powerful and remorseless dynamic they are captured and being dragged along by, one that automatically thwarts all attempts to stop it, the one they cannot understand because their former/present salary requires them to not understand it.
Enjoy your final curtain, bros (I used to be one of you).
The Tech Bros Have the Better Story
So have a nice Anthropocene
In 20 million years, biodiversity should be restored (both in biomass and number of species). An exogeobiologist from Omicron may pass by and note the layer of radioactivity and microplastics in geological strata.
Our existence will be inferred. Artifacts on Luna, in pretty good condition considering, will be noted, and after a closer look, ruins will be found on Earth.
If some modern humans had been able to question their form of civilization (and to ), the exobiologist could have found humans on the planet who understood it and could live with it properly. They would have had information packages of interest to the Omicrons. We (our posterity) could have learned from the Omicrons if they existed. That’s what could matter, bros — you crazy .
“There have been seven [climate change] disasters since humans came on the earth, very similar to the one that’s just about to happen. I think these events keep separating the wheat from the chaff. And eventually we’ll have a human on the planet that really does understand it and can live with it properly. That’s the source of my optimism.” —
I’m a too.
Eric Lee
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