Curtis Yarvin, once a struggling tech entrepreneur turned self-styled political philosopher, has carved out a troubling niche as a dark guru for a new breed of Silicon Valley elites craving authoritarianism. Under the alias “Mencius Moldbug,” Yarvin champions a vision of society where democracy is discarded in favor of an all-powerful CEO-king. A monarch who rules not by consent but by command, promising “efficiency” and “order” over messy human freedom. But this is no radical innovation. It’s fascism dressed in the language of startups and coding. A dangerous fantasy nurtured in the sterile world of blogs, podcasts, and venture capital boardrooms, far removed from the realities of real communities and human struggle. Behind the polished rhetoric lies a deeply flawed ideology, one that misunderstands governance, ignores history, and devalues the very people democracy is meant to serve. More than that, it empowers a tech-bro cult of entitlement, privileged men who believe their intellec...