The Network State

Yesterday, the San Francisco Standard named Curtis Yarvin to the “SF100,” the publication’s list of the city’s most influential people.

“If democracy has felt precarious lately, that’s by design,” declared the Standard in a brief description of Yarvin that labeled him “MAGA’s house philosopher.” “Specifically, by Curtis Yarvin’s design.”

The blurb gives Yarvin credit as an architect of the Donald Trump/Elon Musk destruction of the American government, citing his Retire All Government Employees (RAGE) plan.

This was a breakthrough. Finally, a Bay Area newspaper writes about the San Francisco computer programmer whose extremist political ideas have become highly influential in Washington. Historians — if they still exist in the future — will likely regard the emergence of this dangerous anti-democratic ideology as a very consequential development.