Woe to the Conquered, writes Curtis Yarvin

It doesn't matter that the ruling class cheated in the late election, writes Curtis Yarvin in "Vae Victis." A ruling class worth its salt is always going to apply the force needed to maintain its power -- and also remind the ruled who is boss.

The Supreme Court has sent a clear and lovely Schmittian message. No court or other official authority will ever consider the substance of Republican allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 elections. All will be rejected on procedural grounds by the courts, and mocked with maximal hauteur in the legitimate press.

And we know that the Supreme Court choked because we have unofficial reports of Chief Justice Roberts more or less wailing like a woman to get the rest of the court to reject Texas's complaint against the cheating "battleground" states.

What does he mean by "Schmittian message?" Merely this: "the sovereign is he who decides the exception." But, but, but! I thought that the current Supreme Court doctrine was the "living constitution," that the Supreme Court gets to interpret the Constitution any way it wants to. Er, no. Not quite. The Supreme Court gets to interpret the Constitution any way the ruling class wants it to. So, gay marriage: yes. Free and fair elections: sorry, pal.

You don't like an election decided by skulduggery? Well, too bad. Elections are like water polo. All free and fair above water, but no holds -- or kicks -- barred below the waterline. So at least the Dems have taught us a lesson: two can play at that game.

You don't like to read that? Then stop reading because it is going to get worse.

Let's talk about the media. Think of it and its pals in the ruling class as a kind of Gigaphone, and the volume, in the month of October and thereafter was turned up to 11. On a scale of 1 to 10.

We learned something else about the real constitution of America: that it is the press, not the courts, with the sacred power to inscribe official reality. The Fourth Estate is the highest estate, not the lowest—and always has been.

That is what the Supreme Court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, just told us. Really it is good to know. Every ruling class needed a Ministry of Truth. But it is much better if the truth ministry is not an official government bureaucracy, but a volunteer corps of ruling-class suck-ups. 

But really, I'd say, the media is not a Ministry of Truth. It is the Holy Temple of Truth, and the media suck-ups are the Priests and Bishops of Truth.

Then Yarvin speaks truth to the post-Reagan conservative movement. It is not pretty, so I won't comment.

But then Yarvin tells us that the whole Trump phenomenon, from beginning to end, is an Act of God.

Trump had no way to succeed, so the sooner he failed the better. God made him fail. God hacked the voting machines. God performed the experiment. God got the results. And God sacrificed the animal. 

But the Trump phenomenon, thanks to God, was not a waste. "The world-historic purpose of Trump was to validate the market for dreampolitik."

With Trump as his instrument, God has taught us beyond any doubt that, f*cked as America may be, f*cked as America is, we still have a market for dreams. Indeed we are so f*cked that only dreams can save us. We’re going to need better dreams, though.

He means this, from my Maxims:

Politics is downstream from culture (Breitbart) is downstream from religion (Wright) is downstream from “the meaning of life, the universe, and everything” (Chantrill).

Did I mention that I have written such a dream? It is in my series on "A Vision of the Good Life Better than the Left." My basic argument is that the left's celebration of the political activist is a celebration of the Ego Hero, he who worships at the Shrine of Power. This is an error, because the real hero down the ages -- that appears again and again in myth and religion -- is the Sacrificial Hero, that dies on the border of Order and Chaos so that the rest of us may live.

And, I wrote on Election Day in "Donald Trump, the Sacrificial Hero," that if Trump were reelected he would go down as just another two-term president. But if he were thrown out, then he would become a Sacrificial Hero, and become a great American myth for the ages. In his Maps of Meaning, Jordan B. Peterson writes about the "hostile brothers."

Or, to use Yarvin's way of thinking, Trump defeated becomes part of the New American Dream.