{"id":8663,"date":"2019-10-12T08:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T12:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=8663"},"modified":"2019-11-26T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T02:03:49","slug":"curtis-yarvin-has-a-new-pill-for-us-to-take-the-clear-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/12\/curtis-yarvin-has-a-new-pill-for-us-to-take-the-clear-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Yarvin Has a New Pill for Us to Take, The Clear Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mencius Moldbug (aka Curtis Yarvin) was the tech savant who got interested in the power structures of the modern world.\u00a0 He is credited with borrowing the red pill\/blue pill imagery from the &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; and using it as an analogy for waking up to how the world really is run.<\/p>\n<p>In this new set of posts, over at Claremont Institute&#8217;s &#8220;the American Mind,&#8221; he describes, in his typically long, highly elaborate way, a thought experiment to try to get at the objective truth of how our society is <strong>actually<\/strong> controlled as opposed to the official version.<\/p>\n<p>Yarvin is not an easy read.\u00a0 His writing style is expansive.\u00a0 It reminds me of a spider spinning a web that spirals out and out until you can&#8217;t even remember where you started.\u00a0 But I find him extremely interesting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"FWDdzZaozY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/essays\/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime\/\">The Clear Pill, Part 1 of 5: The Four-Stroke Regime<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;The Clear Pill, Part 1 of 5: The Four-Stroke Regime&#8221; &#8212; The American Mind \" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/essays\/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime\/embed\/#?secret=FWDdzZaozY\" data-secret=\"FWDdzZaozY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mencius Moldbug (aka Curtis Yarvin) was the tech savant who got interested in the power structures of the modern world.\u00a0 He is credited with borrowing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237],"tags":[863,2062,2063,451,2146,2211],"class_list":["post-8663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","tag-claremont-institute","tag-curtis-yarvin","tag-mencius-moldbug","tag-red-pill","tag-the-american-mind","tag-the-clear-pill"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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