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Unqualified Reservations

Original language: English
Original publication: 24 April 2007
Written by: Curtis Yarvin
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CONTENTS

• 2007-04-24 A formalist manifesto
• 2007-04-24 The case against democracy: ten red pills
• 2007-04-26 Why do atheists believe in religion?
• 2007-04-26 Improper political influence over government decision-making
• 2007-04-27 Plague of Dead Sharks, by Alan Dugan
• 2007-04-27 The essential idea of leftism
• 2007-04-27 My new comments policy
• 2007-04-28 Jaroslav Hašek and the kernel-monitor meme
• 2007-04-29 Journalistic independence
• 2007-04-29 Terminology and an open floor
• 2007-05-01 What if there’s no such thing as chaotic good?
• 2007-05-02 He who refuses does not repent
• 2007-05-03 The genius of the New Deal design
• 2007-05-06 Two kinds of repeaters
• 2007-05-06 Castes of the United States
• 2007-05-08 The BDH–OV conflict
• 2007-05-08 What’s ominous is that this dreary world comes after years of meticulous planning
• 2007-05-09 The Utley rule and the BDH alliance
• 2007-05-09 Bad Poem of the Week: “Vanitas Mundi” by Robin Ekiss
• 2007-05-10 This richly colored medium square
• 2007-05-11 Roth, castes, chimps and Rangordnung
• 2007-05-11 Consider the true cost of living with Wiccaphobia
• 2007-05-11 The Antisingularity
• 2007-05-12 Watch the wide sea
• 2007-05-13 The iron polygon: power in the United States
• 2007-05-13 Political sanity in one easy step
• 2007-05-13 Is anyone else getting a Blogger error
• 2007-05-13 Secularists for secularism!
• 2007-05-15 Idealism is not great
• 2007-05-16 The Laphroaig is unawarded
• 2007-05-16 UR’s plan to fix Iraq
• 2007-05-16 Our planet is infested with pseudo-atheists
• 2007-05-17 “The evidence of such sheer dishonesty in science was hard to accept.”
• 2007-05-20 The magic of symmetric sovereignty
• 2007-05-20 Understanding racial idealism
• 2007-05-21 Popularchy: rule of the People
• 2007-05-23 Limited government as antipropertarian idealism
• 2007-05-24 The unlikely appeal of nonidealism
• 2007-05-25 The Fnargland Grand Challenge
• 2007-05-26 Good government as good customer service
• 2007-05-28 L.E. Sissman: poet of the century
• 2007-05-29 Five ways to classify belief systems
• 2007-05-29 The Democrats: party of lies
• 2007-05-31 The reconciliation of government with liberty
• 2007-06-02 Attack of the jazz racists
• 2007-06-02 Hillary fires back
• 2007-06-03 The generalist’s stone: a stable mind
• 2007-06-04 Principles and platitudes
• 2007-06-07 The mystery of the gray government
• 2007-06-08 Liquid
• 2007-06-08 Why there’s no such thing as “liberal media bias”
• 2007-06-10 Separation of information and security
• 2007-06-12 A short history of ultracalvinism
• 2007-06-13 UR will return on Wednesday, June 20
• 2007-06-20 Friction in theory and practice
• 2007-06-21 Moderation
• 2007-06-22 Why conservatives never quite catch the boat
• 2007-06-23 Some objections to ultracalvinism
• 2007-06-24 Why I am not an anti-Semite
• 2007-06-24 The ultracalvinist hypothesis: in perspective
• 2007-06-26 Cement
• 2007-06-27 Cryptocalvinism, slightly tweaked
• 2007-06-29 The Rawlsian god: cryptocalvinism in action
• 2007-06-30 Carlyle rages against the coming of the light
• 2007-07-02 The mystery of pacifism
• 2007-07-04 Why, when, and how to abolish the United States
• 2007-07-06 I wonder if Jonah Goldberg talks about this
• 2007-07-07 A typical moderate-liberal-constitutional-monarchist thought
• 2007-07-10 UR-ICF #1: Carlyle, Montagu, Nock
• 2007-07-12 My Navrozov moments
• 2007-07-14 The Pigeon
• 2007-07-18 Universalism: postwar progressivism as a Christian sect
• 2007-07-19 Administrivia
• 2007-07-22 Miscellaneous answers to unanswered comments
• 2007-07-25 Democracy as an adaptive fiction
• 2007-07-27 Conrad reviews Africa Addio
• 2007-07-29 Samantha Power rules the world
• 2007-07-30 Ten lines for Dorothy Parker
• 2007-07-31 Universalism and original sin (guest post by Michael S.)
• 2007-08-02 What’s wrong with CS research
• 2007-08-04 The country that used to exist
• 2007-08-07 James Burnham’s Dante: Politics as Wish
• 2007-08-09 The secret of anti-Americanism
• 2007-08-13 Be infinitely devoted to your beloved owners
• 2007-08-16 Against political freedom
• 2007-08-18 “Life is better without politics.”
• 2007-08-20 Rotary management: the next big thing
• 2007-08-21 A landscape of bewildering contradictions
• 2007-08-22 Uberfact: the ultimate social verifier
• 2007-08-28 A reservationist epistemology
• 2007-08-30 A brief terminology adjustment
• 2007-08-30 The state is not a stable eleemosynary institution
• 2007-09-01 Statistical analysis moons the bull
• 2007-09-06 A general theory of corruption
• 2007-09-09 Mediocracy: definition, etiology and treatment
• 2007-09-09 The real meaning of diversity
• 2007-09-13 Method and apparatus for safe and effective regime change
• 2007-09-17 Further conversation on regime change
• 2007-09-17 Since some people seem to still think I’m exaggerating this stuff
• 2007-09-20 Is journalism official?
• 2007-09-22 Comments on “Is journalism official?”
• 2007-09-22 Overcome like a fiend by the urge to link
• 2007-09-26 How Dawkins got pwned (part 1)
• 2007-10-04 How Dawkins got pwned (part 2)
• 2007-10-08 Duelnode: another free startup idea
• 2007-10-11 Bunting: Chomei at Toyama
• 2007-10-11 Interstitial comments on Dawkins
• 2007-10-11 How Dawkins got pwned (part 3)
• 2007-10-16 Some quick meta-comments
• 2007-10-18 How Dawkins got pwned (part 4)
• 2007-10-25 How Dawkins got pwned (part 5)
• 2007-10-30 Professor Dawkins, Dr. Watson, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster
• 2007-10-30 Austria felix
• 2007-11-01 How Dawkins got pwned (part 6)
• 2007-11-08 How Dawkins got pwned (part 7)
• 2007-11-09 Musharraf’s rebellion, or: how to read a newspaper
• 2007-11-10 UR’s advice for President Musharraf
• 2007-11-11 Half Sigma goes large
• 2007-11-11 Pakistani emigres on the Musharraf question
• 2007-11-13 Nuclear neocolonialism: a formalist design for nuclear law
• 2007-11-15 Who the heck is Benn Steil?
• 2007-11-20 Five problems with Google Android
• 2007-11-21 Ian Smith: 1919–2007
• 2007-11-22 Why I am not a white nationalist
• 2007-11-29 The Jewish question and other links
• 2007-11-29 Tryfon Tolides: an almost pure empty poetry
• 2007-12-06 Matthew Yglesias: anatomy of an intellectual crackhead
• 2007-12-07 Short administrative note
• 2007-12-13 Why I am not a libertarian
• 2007-12-20 Neocameralism and the escalator of massarchy
• 2007-12-27 An explanation of democratic centrism
• 2007-12-27 Benazir Bhutto: mob hit in Pakistan
• 2008-01-01 Poem for the new year
• 2008-01-03 A straightforward explanation of the present financial crisis (part 1)
• 2008-01-10 An open letter to Ron Paul Supporters
• 2008-01-10 Not Ron Paul!
• 2008-01-16 Questions for Arnold Kling, Megan McArdle, Will Wilkinson, and all other Beltway libertarians
• 2008-01-17 How to actually defeat the US government
• 2008-01-19 Revipedia: how to defeat the US government, reprise
• 2008-01-20 How to defeat the US government: summary
• 2008-01-24 How to actually restore the gold standard (or not)
• 2008-01-31 How I stopped believing in democracy
• 2008-02-04 UR’s endorsements for 2008
• 2008-02-05 UR’s comment policy
• 2008-02-07 How to read and enjoy bogus history
• 2008-02-14 A theory of the ruling underclass
• 2008-02-21 Democracy as a historical phenomenon
• 2008-02-28 Return to Castle Goldenstein: the gold market in a nutshell
• 2008-03-06 UR will return on Thursday, April 17
• 2008-04-17 An open letter to open-minded progressives (part 1)
• 2008-04-24 Open letter pt. 2: more historical anomalies
• 2008-05-01 OL3: the Jacobite history of the world
• 2008-05-08 OL4: Dr. Johnson’s hypothesis
• 2008-05-15 OL5: the shortest way to world peace
• 2008-05-22 OL6: the lost theory of government
• 2008-05-29 OL7: the ugly truth about government
• 2008-06-05 OL8: a reset is not a revolution
• 2008-06-12 OL9: how to uninstall a cathedral
• 2008-06-19 OLX: a simple sovereign bankruptcy procedure
• 2008-06-26 OLXI: the truth about left and right
• 2008-06-29 Gasoline
• 2008-07-02 OLXII: what is to be done?
• 2008-07-10 OLXIII: tactics and structures of any prospective restoration
• 2008-07-17 OLXIV: rules for reactionaries
• 2008-07-24 Grant’s Tomb
• 2008-08-01 Standards
• 2008-08-07 The Novelist
• 2008-08-14 Resartus: a social revision engine
• 2008-08-21 De gustibus non computandum: or, economics needs a divorce
• 2008-08-28 America: vampire of the world (part 1)
• 2008-09-01 Sarah Palin: the proletarian candidate
• 2008-09-04 How to occupy and govern a foreign country
• 2008-09-11 America: vampire of the world (part 2)
• 2008-09-18 A clean-slate accounting of the dollar (part 1)
• 2008-09-25 Odds and ends
• 2008-09-26 Maturity transformation considered harmful: an unauthorized biography of the bank crisis
• 2008-09-26 UR will return on Thursday, November 6
• 2008-10-10 A regime-change signal: maturity crisis in gold?
• 2008-10-14 The Misesian explanation of the bank crisis
• 2008-10-27 México
• 2008-10-31 Did Barack Obama go to Columbia?
• 2008-10-31 Another interpretation of Obama at Columbia
• 2008-11-06 President Obama, with a little perspective
• 2008-11-11 A quick explanation of “fractional-reserve banking”
• 2008-11-13 Barack Obama, for the last time
• 2008-11-13 Patchwork: a positive vision (part 1)
• 2008-11-20 Patchwork 2: profit strategies for our new corporate overlords
• 2008-11-27 Patchwork 3: what we have and what’s so bad about it
• 2008-12-03 Patchwork 4: a reactionary theory of world peace
• 2008-12-10 UR will return on Thursday, January 8
• 2008-12-10 Translating Asif Ali Zardari
• 2009-01-08 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 1)
• 2009-01-15 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 2)
• 2009-01-22 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 3)
• 2009-01-29 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 4)
• 2009-02-05 Halogen
• 2009-02-12 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 5)
• 2009-02-13 Puffs of smoke from the gold volcano
• 2009-02-19 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 6)
• 2009-02-26 Lycidas’ Bull
• 2009-03-05 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 7)
• 2009-03-10 From ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ (Yeats)
• 2009-03-12 Pearl Harbor (Jeffers, 1948)
• 2009-03-19 The Raven
• 2009-03-26 The Geithner plan, slightly demystified
• 2009-04-02 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 8)
• 2009-04-09 America: zombie nation
• 2009-04-16 Kendo
• 2009-04-30 From Luigi Barzini’s The Europeans
• 2009-05-07 Democraphobia goes (slightly) viral
• 2009-05-09 Preston Brooks, the Palestine lobby, and the Nolan chart
• 2009-05-14 Res Gestae
• 2009-05-21 Futarchy considered retarded
• 2009-05-23 Professor Hanson responds
• 2009-05-28 A Short Note on Demons
• 2009-06-04 Judge Sotomayor: a reactionary exegesis
• 2009-06-11 Evidence in current history
• 2009-06-18 The crimes of James von Brunn and Marcus Epstein
• 2009-06-20 Émile Faguet on legal realism
• 2009-06-25 UR succumbs to virology
• 2009-07-02 Secession, liberty, and dictatorship
• 2009-07-08 Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
• 2009-07-16 Why Carlyle matters
• 2009-07-23 Carlyle in the 20th century: fascism and socialism
• 2009-07-30 Poem
• 2009-08-06 UR’s crash course in sound economics
• 2009-08-13 UR is on vacation
• 2009-08-20 From Cromer to Romer and back again: colonialism for the 21st century
• 2009-08-27 Kennedy
• 2009-08-28 A rare public appearance
• 2009-09-03 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9a)
• 2009-09-10 The Honduran rebellion—or, State’s invisible world displayed
• 2009-09-17 Young America
• 2009-09-21 UR: banned in San Francisco
• 2009-09-24 Seasteading, without that warm glow
• 2009-10-01 Ends and odds
• 2009-10-08 UR postponed due to BTD
• 2009-10-09 Robert Lowell on the Obama prize
• 2009-10-12 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9b)
• 2009-10-20 South Africa: a message to Jenny
• 2009-10-21 South Africa: the solution
• 2009-10-29 UR will ship no wine before its time
• 2009-11-05 Alien Acid Beast
• 2009-11-13 The Dire Problem and the Virtual Option
• 2009-11-18 Hunting for whites after the cancellation of the release of money
• 2009-11-19 A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9d)
• 2009-11-26 Climategate and other correspondence
• 2009-12-03 Gold and the central banks: the game theory
• 2009-12-14 Climategate: history’s message
• 2009-12-17 Shooting the alligator and other conversations
• 2009-12-18 Expiring liquidity facilities: bad plan, Stan
• 2009-12-23 UR will return on January 7, 2010
• 2010-01-07 Maxwell’s equations of software
• 2010-01-10 Public appearance
• 2010-01-14 Urbit: functional programming from scratch
• 2010-01-18 The Hanson-Moldbug debate
• 2010-01-21 The Mencius Moldbug Babysitting Fund
• 2010-01-23 MMBF: 2-day results
• 2010-01-27 MMBF: 2 days left to give
• 2010-01-28 On sovereign financial reconciliation
• 2010-01-28 MMBF: the kittens are saved!
• 2010-02-04 From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force
• 2010-02-09 Maturity transformation: cat, bag, out
• 2010-02-11 PIPE shorting and Professor Hanson’s head
• 2010-02-18 Horseshoe Pit in Golden Gate Park
• 2010-02-21 One-sided conversation with a headless professor
• 2010-02-26 UR postponed due to BTD
• 2010-02-28 Uncorrected Evidence 39
• 2010-03-04 Corrected evidence
• 2010-03-04 World War II: primary sourcebook
• 2010-03-11 The future of search
• 2010-03-19 Divine-right monarchy for the modern secular intellectual
• 2010-03-19 The true election: a practical option for real political change
• 2010-04-03 The credit-default swap and the bullion banks; a question and a statement
• 2010-04-16 Join the Froude Society!
• 2010-04-18 Professors young and old: an involuntary debate
• 2010-04-25 Unarmed combat in the digital armchair
• 2010-05-02 Solzhenitsyn, “As Breathing and Consciousness Return,” 1973
• 2010-05-08 Strange rumblings in Dollarstan
• 2010-05-12 Please comment on Froude, Maine and/or Carlyle
• 2010-06-08 President Colacho makes you his bitch
• 2010-06-25 Comments
• 2010-06-27 Three homeworks for Professor Hanson
• 2010-07-12 Actual letter to a liberal friend
• 2010-07-26 Race: a modest proposal
• 2010-08-09 Open thread for all birthers
• 2010-08-17 Abecedarium Nordmannicum
• 2010-08-29 The rabble of Imperial Rome
• 2010-09-12 Henry (9/11/10)
• 2010-10-01 Slow history and the mysterious 20th century
• 2010-11-03 Robespierre
• 2010-11-04 Democracy, cis and trans; Maine’s law
• 2010-11-08 UR: the heard-it-here-first files
• 2010-11-18 The Lightworker wants to touch your junk
• 2010-12-08 Homage to Slobodan Milosevic
• 2010-12-26 Monetary reconstruction: presented without comment
• 2010-12-29 The 20th century in two short quotes
• 2011-01-22 Your goverment in pictures, 1954
• 2011-01-28 Egypt: US foreign policy at the nadir
• 2011-02-03 On government employment
• 2011-02-04 Pictures from the human-rights empire: a prose collage
• 2011-02-24 Viscount Hinchingbrooke demurs
• 2011-03-16 Libya, the nadir achieved
• 2011-04-09 A small segue of subject
• 2011-04-10 Ivory Coast: are they going to come and kill my cat?
• 2011-04-21 On monetary restandardization
• 2011-05-01 Carlyle and Froude on monarchy and religion
• 2011-05-04 USG: more Russian than the Tsar, more Muslim than Osama
• 2011-06-09 Slow history extravaganza
• 2011-07-19 A century of academic sovereignty
• 2011-07-23 Right-wing terrorism as folk activism
• 2011-07-25 The indisputable humanity of Anders Behring Breivik
• 2011-07-31 Dispatches from the real America
• 2011-08-01 Petition against the reactosphere
• 2011-08-05 The Reuther memorandum, 1961
• 2011-08-09 Movers and shakers in sports & leisure
• 2011-08-16 Choose empire
• 2011-09-05 The demons
• 2011-09-28 Occasional discourse on the hate question
• 2011-10-06 Thos. Carlyle on Steve Jobs
• 2011-10-11 Professor Krugman on maturity transformation
• 2011-10-12 Personal cloud computing in 2020 (or not)
• 2011-10-26 The Holocaust: a Nazi perspective
• 2011-11-15 Three poems of Weldon Kees
• 2012-01-16 Race relations in early New York
• 2012-01-23 The kiss: “Stalin was feeling extremely gay”
• 2012-02-23 BIL in Long Beach, Mar 3–4
• 2012-02-24 The year of jellyfish
• 2012-06-02 Prussifornia
• 2012-09-26 Dominion
• 2012-11-07 Romney! He sucks!
• 2012-11-30 Adore the river of meat
• 2012-12-24 Some perspectives from Prudentius
• 2013-01-05 Are we big in France?
• 2013-01-16 Noam Chomsky killed Aaron Swartz
• 2013-01-19 Christians have right to vandalize abortion clinics, Duke law professor claims
• 2013-01-24 How Bitcoin dies
• 2013-02-08 Charles Stross discovers the Cathedral
• 2013-02-19 The greatness of Lawrence Auster
• 2013-03-13 Sam Altman is not a blithering idiot
• 2013-03-19 RIP Bitcoin, I think
• 2013-03-19 Jacques Ellul on the demand for propaganda
• 2013-03-21 Two words for Tyler Cowen and Ilya Somin
• 2013-03-29 The path to (dark) enlightenment
• 2013-03-29 Lawrence Auster, 1949–2013
• 2013-04-03 Felix Salmon’s Bitcoin FUD
• 2013-04-08 Bitcoin is money, Bitcoin is a bubble
• 2013-04-25 Bitcoin panic light flashing bright amber
• 2013-06-20 Civil liberties and the single reactionary
• 2013-09-13 Technology, communism and the Brown Scare
• 2013-09-23 Urbit demo Sep 25 in SF
• 2013-11-28 Mr. Jones is rather concerned
• 2014-02-01 Crocodile Prayer
• 2014-08-02 Cath Lab (2012)
• 2014-08-02 The Anarchy
• 2014-08-02 Hiatus
• 2016-04-18 Coda