Bannon is keen on white supremacist, Nazi apologist, anti-democracy 'Mencius Moldbug'
Before he emerged on the political scene, an obscure Silicon Valley computer programmer with ties to Trump backer and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel was explaining his behavior. Curtis Yarvin, the self-proclaimed neoreactionary who blogs under the name Mencius Moldbug, attracted a following in 2008 when he published a wordy treatise asserting, among other things, that nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. When the organizer of a computer science conference canceled Yarvins appearance following an outcry over his blogging under his nom de web, Bannon took note: Breitbart News decried the act of censorship in an article about the programmer-bloggers dismissal.
Moldbugs dense, discursive musings on historyWhats so bad about the Nazis? he asks in one 2008 post that condemns the Holocaust but questions the moral superiority of the Alliesinclude a belief in the utility of spreading misinformation that now looks like a template for Trumps approach to truth. To believe in nonsense is an unforgeable (sic) demonstration of loyalty. It serves as a political uniform. And if you have a uniform, you have an army, he writes in a May 2008 post.
In one January 2008 post, titled How I stopped believing in democracy, he decries the Georgetownist worldview of elites like the late diplomat George Kennan. Moldbugs writings, coming amid the failure of the U.S. state-building project in Iraq, are hard to parse clearly and are open to multiple interpretations, but the author seems aware that his views are provocative. It's been a while since I posted anything really controversial and offensive here, he begins in a July 25, 2007, post explaining why he associates democracy with war, tyranny, destruction and poverty.
Moldbug, who does not do interviews and could not be reached for this story, has reportedly opened up a line to the White House, communicating with Bannon and his aides through an intermediary, according to a source. Yarvin said he has never spoken with Bannon. During the transition, he made clear his deep skepticism that the Russians were behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, the source saida message that Trump himself reiterated several times.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/steve-bannon-books-reading-list-214745
'Moldbug' counts as an 'intellectual' in the alt-right universe - see
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