This article appeared in the German-language newspaper, Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), based in Zürich, Switzerland, on the 18th of November. Its self-apparent title, refers to President-elect Donald Trump and his advisor Curtis Yarvin—named in the article as Trump's "dunkler Einflüsterer", or "dark whisperer", suggesting a mysterious confidential-advisor whom no one else knows.

In the second paragraph, the NZZ article mentions that Yarvin has gone on record as wanting to dis-establish Democracy as the U.S. nation's governing ethos, causing fear and consternation among Democrats. Yarvin wants to restart it (or reboot it) as a sort of Silicon Valley monarchy: "A nation should be run as a start-up business, as the property of a monarchical CEO."

The article continues that Yarvin would like to topple what he calls the "Cathedral" culture, the left-wing indoctrination of Americans by the Progressive media, the universities, and the "Deep State". So I used the historical British term "disestablish", from the 17th century, that refers to the reform movement in Britain to separate the powers of the Church from that of the State.

Yarvin does not think like most people, and even before the Election of 2024, he spoke of "red-pilling" as a step every American needs to take in order to escape from the Left's indoctrination. President Trump's inner-circle all use this term, which comes from the movie The Matrix, filmed in 1999, starring Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, and Carrie- Anne Moss.

The Matrix tells the story of "Neo" (Reeves) who realizes that the Matrix (early A.I.) controls people with a "simulated reality". Neo approaches "Morpheus" (Fishburne) who gives him a red pill that frees him from the Matrix's control. The Matrix has basically the same plot as They Live!, a much better movie from 1988, directed by John Carpenter.

Interestingly, Carpenter named the main character of his movie "Nada". Like Morpheus and Neo, Nada believes that Americans in real life will not connect to reality unless they wear special sunglasses. Alien Intelligence, the older form of Artificial Intelligence, controls their perception through a giant satellite-dish.

Yarvin however accepts the "Matrix" as a contemporary reality: A lot of people don't live in the real world, he says, and they don't want to; but whereas Morpheus offers Neo the ability to escape the Matrix, Yarvin believes that many people prefer it to a reality-based life. So, let them stay in the Matrix! Don't disturb them. Let the Matrix continue to "harvest their bio-electric power while keeping their minds pacified." (Wikipedia article on The Matrix.)

Some critics describe Yarvin as a "sophist", a man who spouts clever but false arguments for the purpose of deceiving others. The article also uses the word "Großmannsucht",  that describes a man with pretensions of greatness. But I assume that he really wants the Silicon-Valley monarch thing—a top-down style of governing managed by libertarian technocrats of the tech-industry.

For me, the Founding Fathers of the country stepped into that "top-down" role solely for the purpose of creating our constitutional republic, then they stepped down from it, in order to let the U.S. Constitution do the governing—a "nation of laws and not of men", as the Constitution's author John Adams expressed it.

The Left speaks of America as controlled by "trickle-down economics". I think of America as a nation with a structure porous enough to let people of humble means percolate to the top. None of the people in the Trump administration—Thiel, Musk, Yarvin, or Vance—could ever have done in another country what they have accomplished here.Nevertheless, I wish them luck, in the best sense of the word. Bear in mind that Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung published an article in 2017, titled "Die mächtigen Männer schlagen zurück" (in English, "The powerful men strike back"), after Trump's first Election victory, that first touted Yarvin's grandiose plans. Maybe the failure of the first set of plans will make the Matrix-rebels wiser and more realistic about how to implement the second set.

I personally wish they would pay more attention to gaining independence for Right-thinking people, from the Matrix-governed Left. Perhaps we would not need a monarchy, after all. We could succeed just as easily with average Americans who play by the Constitution's principles.