Yarvin — Power Structure Analysis

Who benefits? Who, whom? Cathedral or counter-Cathedral?

Curtis Yarvin’s framework maps the managerial class — the distributed network of universities, media, nonprofits, and bureaucracies that governs without formal authority. He calls this the Cathedral: not a conspiracy but a consensus machine that produces “correct” opinions and enforces them through social pressure rather than law.

Key Questions

• Who benefits? Follow the power, not the rhetoric.
• Who, whom? Yarvin’s adaptation of Lenin: who is doing what to whom?
• Cathedral move? Is this the managerial class expanding or defending its authority?
• Counter-Cathedral? Is someone building parallel institutions outside the consensus machine?

Detection Patterns

Cathedral moves often appear as: regulatory expansion, DEI mandates, media consensus formation, deplatforming campaigns, institutional credentialism, expert-class gatekeeping.

Counter-Cathedral signals: decentralized systems, parallel institutions, exit over voice, sovereign individual strategies.