The Swarm and the Influencer

Royalists are rare in modern democracies. Aside from a few fringe groups (like Moldbug’s NeoReactionaries), almost no one is calling for a return to the monarchical system, in which supreme authority is vested in an individual ruler. To be a royalist today is, in a sense, to renounce politics altogether. In fact, Moldbug’s ‘First Step’ for regime change is to eschew ‘any involvement with any activity whose goal is to influence, coerce, or…