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Does the "dark enlightenment" movement explain the motivations of the actors driving current events?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
“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.” The modern solution devised by Yarvin in “A Formalist Manifesto” advocates for a form of neocameralism in which small, authoritarian “gov-corps” coexist and compete with each other. He claims freedom under the system would be guaranteed by the ability to “vote with your feet”, whereby residents could leave for another gov-corp if they felt it would provide a higher quality of life, thus forcing competition. Nick Land reiterates this with the political idea “No Voice, Free Exit”:
“If gov-corp doesn’t deliver acceptable value for its taxes (sovereign rent), they can notify its customer service function, and if necessary take their custom elsewhere. Gov-corp would concentrate upon running an efficient, attractive, vital, clean, and secure country, of a kind that is able to draw customers.”
Ana Teixeira Pinto describes the political ideology of the gov-corp model as a form of classical libertarianism: “they do not want to limit the power of the state, they want to privatise it.”
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 “accelerationism”, by which the creation and promotion of societal crises is to hasten the adoption of the neoreactive state.
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