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Gurometer: Curtis Yarvin (Patreon)

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2025-01-02 08:37:30
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2026-06
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Back once again with the dark art of Gurometry, we turn our sights to the bad boy of Silicon Valley—the mulleted maestro, the edgy eejit, Curtis Yarvin. A legend in his own mind, but how does he rank on the Gurosity scale? Join us as we dissect his essence across 11 factors, from his revolutionarily mundane and incoherent ideas to his dazzling absence of charisma. Tune in as we feed this 'dark enlightenment' thinker into the Gurometer and reveal his true colors.

00:00 Introduction to Gurometry

02:27 Curtis Yarvin: The Man, The Myth, The Eejit

04:43 Galaxy Brainlessness

05:48 Cultishness

08:32 Anti-Establishmentarianism

09:55 Grievance Mongering

12:43 Self-Aggrandizement and Narcissism

13:30 Cassandra Complex

16:21 Revolutionary Theories

17:59 Pseudo-Profound Bullshit

19:43 Conspiracy Theories Galore

23:55 Moral Grandstanding

25:50 Grommeter Scores and Analysis

27:56 Bonus Point Attribution

34:03 Final Thoughts on Curtis Yarvin

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Kurt Ressler

As the guru’s guru, Curtis should score high on the gurometer.

Neil vdp

Curtis has really got under your skin Matt 😂. I was wondering if maybe you were just a bit tired from your travels during the decoding episode. But no, it’s just Curtis! Chris needed to be solid, to steady the ship. What a team! This is a guru I’ve never heard of and will avoid. Your sacrifice has not been in vein. 😜

Linda Sears

I admit that I am struggling with getting why Yarvin is so influential. I can understand the appeal of Peterson, the Weinsteins, Rogan, Dr. K, Huberman, Musk, and even (shudder) Russel Brand. Can anyone explain? Is it because he came up during the early days of the internet, which makes him appear to be a sage?

Jen

I will give him a 5 in “eats his own ear wax”.

Gungy

He gets a 5 in grifting only if the only person we count at the grifted is Peter Theil

Mark Francis

Very entertaining! I wanted to suggest another category for the guru meter. Is the guru a hedgehog or a fox? As described by Isaiah Berlin in his 1953 essay

Tim Crittenden

Is your theme tune an Indian take on the intro theme from the old Hitchhiker's Guide radio play?

Daniel

Hi, is the RSS feed down?

john statham

Top Mattrix content: ‘He makes me think of Jordan Peterson with a kind of Romantic Nostalgia.’

KBDaxio

So apparently reading micro book summaries is a thing bros do now to make them feel wise, smart and well-read. I think this is what Curtis does (and so many of the other guru aspirants and their followers). They only sound super-smart to people who haven’t actually read the works being referenced. You hear it all the time. (Before the internet, there was a book called “A dictionary of Cultural Literacy” that did something similar.) They have the most superficial of understandings that they convince themselves and others is deep. But it isn’t deep at all … this is why it’s mystifying that they are taken seriously at all. (But also explains how they can move on from a full throated New Atheism to Stoicism to Christianity to whatever “philosophy” becomes part of the zeitgeist. The shallowness of understanding explains the restlessness.) Take Yarvin’s basic assertion that monarchy is a superior form of government. He can’t answer why because he only read summaries of some perennial philosophers who claim the same. Their reasoning boils down to the divine right of kings (which is the only rationale for monarchy that sufficiently answers the question as to how and who chooses: God does.) The philosophizing that gets them there isn’t in the summaries (or introductions) which is probably why Yarvin can’t get anybody there except other bros who haven’t actually read anything but vaguely need to believe that they would be in one of the elites.

Ymirsdreams

[Nerd notes: the pen name 'Mencius Moldbug' as a pun on both 'Mencisu' (a Confucian / Ru-ist writer who advocated for fealty to the concept of 'parent' and 'sovereign' over the realities of who/what they were, so one might treat one's father as 'father' rather than as 'that drunken ass**** who abandoned me', etc) and on 'Goldbug', a term for gold-standard advocates in economics. The choice of that name is pretty much the clearest Yarvin ever gets to articulating his views.]