Politics |Curtis Yarvin | Elon Musk

Segregation is Back, Baby! Patchwork States, SeaSteads, Mars Colonies, etc

The (underground) movement that is destroying democracy

There’s a breed of near-perfect humans (pictured above) in this country that have been longing to seal themselves off from the ‘inefficiencies’ that come hand in hand with the human condition namely, social interaction at various levels, and the quest for ever-increasing democratic systems of governance.

They had for a long time been unable to reach a compromise between themselves and the people living among them until Donald Trump came along, looking for something they have in great abundance, money.

How does the idea of ‘Patchwork State’ sound to you? The breaking up of the entire country into privately run States where individuals could ‘opt into’ whatever ‘state’ suited them best, with the added satisfaction of getting to watch the ‘state’ you rage-quit crash and burn?

This ‘bold new world — at least on paper — would exempt you from the inherent messiness of the human condition, according to Curtis Yarvin. In his view, you’d probably have to choose between the following;

Elon Musk’s Mars colonies

Patri Friedman’s seasteading

Mencius Moldbug’s patchwork states (Curtis Yarvin’s pen name)

Balaji Srinivasan’s Network States