Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is known, along with accelerationist philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx), which originated in the late 2000s.
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- Brooklyn
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- Brown UniversityUniversity of California, BerkeleyJohns Hopkins UniversityThe English SchoolJohns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
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1973
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