How Many Degrees of Separation?

12/21/24 Guardian warns of an intellectual named Curtis Yarvin who is dangerous, because among other things:

"“What’s unique is his way of rebranding or repackaging old reactionary ideas in a way that appealed to libertarian-minded kids in the tech industry, and in eventually getting some of them to embrace a lot of far-right ideas,” he said.

“That’s the novelty of Yarvin and that’s his real accomplishment.”..."

The hazard is his influence on Michael Anton who is going to State:

"Anton wrote that “the United States peaked around 1965”, and that Americans are ruled by “a network of unelected bureaucrats … corporate-tech-finance senior management, ‘experts’ who set the boundaries of acceptable opinion, and media figures who police those boundaries”."

So far, Anton seems to be reality-based.  Why is he so dangerous? Because Yarvin has influenced him.  Murray Rothbard has influenced me, but I do not agree with much of what Rothbard believed.

So B is dangerous because he knows A, and A thinks dangerously.