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Now I understand why Trump went with Vance, who is a supporter of "Dark Enlightenment"

The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, reactionary philosophical and political movement. The term "Dark Enlightenment" is a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment and apologia for the public view of the "Dark Ages".

The ideology generally rejects Whig historiography—the concept that history shows an inevitable progression towards greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy—in favor of a return to traditional societal constructs and forms of government, including absolute monarchism and other older forms of leadership such as cameralism.

In 2007 and 2008, software engineer Curtis Yarvin, writing under the pen name Mencius Moldbug, articulated what would develop into Dark Enlightenment thinking. Yarvin's theories were elaborated and expanded by philosopher Nick Land, who first coined the term Dark Enlightenment in his essay of the same name.

Central to Nick Land's ideas is a belief in freedom's incompatibility with democracy. Land drew inspiration from libertarians such as Peter Thiel, as indicated in his essay The Dark Enlightenment. The Dark Enlightenment has been described by journalists and commentators as alt-right and neo-fascist. A 2016 article in New York magazine notes that "Neoreaction has a number of different strains, but perhaps the most important is a form of post-libertarian futurism that, realizing that libertarians aren't likely to win any elections, argues against democracy in favor of authoritarian forms of government."

Andy Beckett stated that "NRx" supporters "believe in the replacement of modern nation-states, democracy and government bureaucracies by authoritarian city states, which on neoreaction blogs sound as much like idealised medieval kingdoms as they do modern enclaves such as Singapore."

According to criminal justice professor George Michael, neoreaction seeks to save its ideal of Western civilization through adoption of a monarchical, or CEO model of government to replace democracy. It also embraces the notion of "acceleration", first articulated by Vladimir Lenin as "worse is better", but in the neoreaction version, the creation and promotion of ever more societal crises hastens the adoption of the neoreactive state instead of a communist one.

Other focuses of neoreaction often include an idealization of physical fitness; a rationalist or utilitarian justification for social stratification based on intelligence, based on either heredity or meritocracy; an embrace of Classical philosophy, and traditional gender roles.

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by Anonymousreply 25October 1, 2024 3:30 AM

The words dark and enlightenment are total opposites. Whoever came up with this term is a moron.

We need complete enlightenment, now!

by Anonymousreply 1July 28, 2024 8:07 PM

More.

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by Anonymousreply 2July 28, 2024 8:13 PM

The link between Curtis Yarvin and JD Vance.

Just watch the first two minutes of this, and you'll get a good sense of who we're dealing with.

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by Anonymousreply 3July 28, 2024 8:13 PM

Juicy Davenport Vance is an instrument of the oligarchs. He supports what he’s told to support by Thiel, who gets his direction from Putin.

by Anonymousreply 4July 28, 2024 8:20 PM

Almost as dark as that Brahmin he married and made children with

by Anonymousreply 5July 28, 2024 8:25 PM

I'll stick with their old name : Goddamned Nazis

by Anonymousreply 6July 28, 2024 8:36 PM

JD is the Dork Enlightenment

by Anonymousreply 7July 28, 2024 8:48 PM

The I-have-to-drink-Mountain-Dew-because-I-can’t-handle-coffee type enlightenment.

by Anonymousreply 8July 28, 2024 8:50 PM

I'm more of a Milk Chocolate Enlightenment type of gal

by Anonymousreply 9July 28, 2024 8:51 PM

Vladimir Futon

by Anonymousreply 10July 28, 2024 8:55 PM

Lady boy? I wanted a Laz E Boy!

by Anonymousreply 11July 28, 2024 9:27 PM

Great. 12th Century shit.

by Anonymousreply 12July 28, 2024 9:27 PM

OP you think Trump understands philosophical concepts?

Trump went with somebody who reminds him of himself to flatter his ego.

Vance reminds him of himself because he is a shapeshifter.

by Anonymousreply 13July 28, 2024 9:42 PM

He and his "mentor" Peter Thiel both love Curtis Yarvin. Thiel is also buddies with Milo Y

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by Anonymousreply 14July 30, 2024 5:32 PM

this movement is very influential now, an old friend got really into it about ten years ago. it's extremely dangerous. that's what is up with this whole tradcath thing. they're using it as part of the chapel - which is this cultural monolith that peasants are controlled by. these are the most cynical guys ever - they're all into drug fueled orgies and new age horseshit too. they're burning man technofascists. they would probably like to live in a future where most of humanity is dead and they all compete with eachother in a kind of AI economy game and fight robot wars for sport and then go gangrape concubines together or something. they are stunted little boys.

by Anonymousreply 15July 30, 2024 6:37 PM

Cat ladies unite.

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by Anonymousreply 16July 30, 2024 6:49 PM

[quote] Other focuses of neoreaction often include an idealization of physical fitness

That leaves every Trump voter out of it.

by Anonymousreply 17July 30, 2024 7:03 PM

Trump is a useful idiot. He was told to choose Vance.

by Anonymousreply 18July 30, 2024 7:29 PM

Rachel is discussing Yarvin now, and Shady Vance’s connections to him. She’s showing video of Yarvin complaining about his small penis, erm… I mean, pontificating about deleting our Constitutional government. He looks about as one would have expected him to look then, and he’s aged EXACTLY like one would expect now.

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by Anonymousreply 19October 1, 2024 1:44 AM

NRx?!

What a bunch of tools.

by Anonymousreply 20October 1, 2024 1:46 AM

Like my meat dark……

by Anonymousreply 21October 1, 2024 1:47 AM

Working yourself into a paranoid knot. Trump isn’t going to win anyway. He’s out of gas.

by Anonymousreply 22October 1, 2024 1:56 AM

Well now can you explain why Harris went with Walz?

by Anonymousreply 23October 1, 2024 1:57 AM

You're ridiculous r23, here's a bowl of vegetable soup as a parting gift.

I know you'd prefer borscht, but a liberal vegan asked ChatGPT to write a response to your ChatGPT trolling effort.

by Anonymousreply 24October 1, 2024 3:21 AM

Trump went with Vance because bitch's campaign was BROKE.

JD Vance gave him access to sweet sweet techbro hipster Nazi money.

by Anonymousreply 25October 1, 2024 3:30 AM
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