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Decentralized Democracy and Yarvin on American Monarchy (Network State Conference 2026)

Balaji Srinivasan × Curtis Yarvin · 1:17:35

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The post-war order is the pre-Internet order.
And the rise of the Internet means that order is ending.
But what comes next?
Decentralized democracy — or American monarchy?
Curtis makes the case for a centralized American monarchy.
Balaji makes the case for decentralized Internet democracy.
OUTLINE
0:28 - Do you believe America can be turned around?
12:23 - Mass market ideologies versus institutional power structures
14:38 - In the late 1800s, four things happening at the same time that are mirrored today
26:52 - The future of America is more like American anarchy than American monarchy
52:49 -

Chapters (10)

0:00 · <Untitled Chapter 1>0:28 · Do you believe America can be turned around?12:23 · Mass market ideologies versus institutional power structures14:38 · In the late 1800s, four things happening at the same time that are mirrored today26:52 · The future of America is more like American anarchy than American monarchy52:49 · AI is the economic equivalent of the resource curse61:34 · China is more MAGA than MAGA, and the internet is more America than America64:22 · China has simply rediscovered pre-Anglo-American statecraft73:20 · The Cromwell of China is Deng Xiaoping77:22 · Are we living in the late Roman Republic or the late Roman Empire?
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