Curtis Yarvin & The Neoreactionary Canon, Made Simple

By Hugo Thornton Rowley

The Neoreactionary Canon, Made Simple - Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, and the Future of Governance

What if democracy is an illusion? Should voting be restricted? Do elite institutions-media, academia, and government-silently dictate society's course?

These are the questions at the heart of Curtis Yarvin's Neoreactionary Canon and the broader Dark Enlightenment, a movement that challenges democratic ideals and reimagines governance through monarchy, corporate rule, and elite control. Yarvin (formerly Mencius Moldbug) and philosopher Nick Land have shaped debates on power, hierarchy, and statecraft, influencing discussions in tech, politics, and finance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DX9YM6QR
• ISBN13: 9798230913313
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Hugo Rowley
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

At worst AI slop, at best horrible writing

I don't know if the author used AI in this book, but it sure reads like it. The entire book is just a series of bullet points and definitions that constantly repeats itself. I turned to three random sections and 'just happened' to find the same concept defined in the same way, with the author's same rebuttal. Instead of a long, overarching narrative that is crafted, you get a few short paragraphs about a specific concept over and over again, making the book read like a 15 page technical manual that was artificially stretched to over 200 pages. I think the author was trying to format it like a textbook, but it just was not executed properly. I don't disagree with any of the author's conclusions, and I think pretty much all of his points against Yarvin are accurate, but this book isn't a sort of overview of the nrx canon as much as it is the disparate ideas of the author, structured loosely, seemingly using AI (and not the cool, supercomputer kind, but the last generation GPT). The author constantly asserts his views and rebuttals without giving the ideas he's attempting to rebut enough time nor explanation. His rebuttals are often in the same paragraph or sentence of what he is trying to define in the first place, rather than fully explaining a concept then offerring a rebuttal. On top of that, his rebuttals are milquetoast progressive ideas that virtually every sane person holds. You don't need to constantly say that monarchy is bad, we all already know it, and those that don't won't be convinced by simply saying it a bunch of times. I apologize to the author if he did not use AI for this, but it really does read like it, and I'm not opposed to AI, but if I wanted an AI summary of Yarvin's ideas I would just ask ChatGPT for free, and I wouldn't stretch it to 200 pages. A lazy, unreadable book. That being said, the book isn't completely irredeemable, it's a cold day today and I need something to burn for warmth, and I think this book will do just fine.