1. I'm afraid Mr. Yarvin has fallen victim to what Olavo de Carvalho named the "Cognitive Parallax", wherein theoretical constructions from an intellectual simply do not conform to that intellectual's biographical experience.
2a. Marx is a good example. Take his view of ideology and the movements of History.

The burgeois have a false view of history, and are therefore unfit to guide its motions. The proletarians, on the other hand, have an unbiased view of history, therefore are fit to guide it.
2b. Yet Marx wasn't a proletarian, therefore if his theory is true, then he couldn't have an objective view of history, therefore his theory is false. Cognitive parallax.
3. Moldbug is suffering from Cognitive Parallax when he says (a) that the Cathedral is organic and spontaneous and (b) that political developments aren't the result of the work of intellectuals. Moldbug himself has created a political movement aiming at constructing a Cathedral.
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