For Razib, 2024
︎︎︎ Curtis Yarvin
︎ July 27, 2026
Procrustes, the bandit,
Had a standard bed
Long as an average man.
His captives, cut or strung
To this statistical mean—
Or threatened at least!—
Surrendered their treasures and truths.
Razib: you broke me
With numbers and figures,
From the ancient death cult
of human uniformity.
To see the world wrong
Is to set the world wrong,
And the one true god
The god who made the world
We measure—all others are myth.
All others are devils—fathers
Of lies—axemen and ropers
of the bloody bed. Razib!
Though wiser than me, you
Look older. Happy birthday!
Our nucleotides, tattered
With half a century's gray,
Will judge the rest of the race.
These polymers, durable
But hardly indestructible,
Have seen mutagens and vitamins,
Breaks and copies and repairs.
Mark Twain's elephants
By the herd, war and peace
Abroad and in the home—
At fifty, no ambition remains:
You are who you will always be—
Hope's last home is health—
And I can give you hope for free.
Let year after year after year
Chime with text-cascades
of HBD.
Had a standard bed
Long as an average man.
His captives, cut or strung
To this statistical mean—
Or threatened at least!—
Surrendered their treasures and truths.
Razib: you broke me
With numbers and figures,
From the ancient death cult
of human uniformity.
To see the world wrong
Is to set the world wrong,
And the one true god
The god who made the world
We measure—all others are myth.
All others are devils—fathers
Of lies—axemen and ropers
of the bloody bed. Razib!
Though wiser than me, you
Look older. Happy birthday!
Our nucleotides, tattered
With half a century's gray,
Will judge the rest of the race.
These polymers, durable
But hardly indestructible,
Have seen mutagens and vitamins,
Breaks and copies and repairs.
Mark Twain's elephants
By the herd, war and peace
Abroad and in the home—
At fifty, no ambition remains:
You are who you will always be—
Hope's last home is health—
And I can give you hope for free.
Let year after year after year
Chime with text-cascades
of HBD.