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This week on LLWD, Inmn talks with Eric of the preparedness newsletter When/If about his new book Red Pepper. They talk preparedness, why it may not always be a good idea to bug out, and how building community is still the #1 preparedness tip.
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Red Pepper with Eric Shonkwiler
# Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn talks with Eric from the preparedness newsletter _When/If_ about his new book _Red Pepper._ They talk preparedness models, why it ma...
![Computer scientist Curtis Yarvin first voiced neoreactionary ideology in 2007, and it spread largely though the tech startup subculture, assisted by Silicon Valley venture capitalists including Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, and Peter Thiel. Many of Yarvin’s pronouncements closely foreshadowed what the Trump regime, and DOGE specifically, have been doing. In 2012, Yarvin proposed a “reboot” of government that centered on appointing a “national CEO, [or] what’s called a dictator,” who would oversee an operation to “Retire All Government Employees” (RAGE) and replace civil servants with political loyalists. In 2022, Yarvin envisioned a “butterfly revolution” under a second Trump administration that would give “absolute sovereignty to a single organization” treating the federal government as a conquered enemy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqre2sxfebqonsel7k63q34v/bafkreia3od6hne7qujtsnikkx3k6td6u2cs636ln6snwyywbwjifnfimpe)
![Despite its impact on the current Trump regime, neoreactionary politics is not MAGA politics. The movement to Make America Great Again, Trump’s political base, is a classic example of right-wing populism, i.e., a movement that combines calls to intensify oppression with twisted forms of anti-elitism. Neoreactionaries, by contrast, believe firmly that elites should rule and “the people” should not. Neoreactionaries dismiss the whole idea of a popular uprising. As Yarvin wrote in June 2024, “Charlottesville [the 2017 Unite the Right rally] and January 6 were the last lame breaths of what John Adams called ‘mobocracy’ in America.” What Yarvin envisioned wasn’t a popular uprising, but rather a top-down plan to “hack” the system in order to break it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqre2sxfebqonsel7k63q34v/bafkreihgsyi46uazjqodrey4kchynprckcyu2pz55i3ryw7at3j6kpbqcm)
