An Evidence-Based Critique of "The Dark Enlightenment"

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself— and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman

By 2026, the Dark Enlightenment no longer appears as fringe internet theory but as a quiet operating logic in parts of the New Right and Silicon Valley: anti-democratic, accelerationist, and CEOist. Its practical thrust is to weaken mediating institutions, attack the administrative state, and recast governance as executive control rather than public accountability. What was once marginal: post-democratic hierarchy, reactionary modernism, and selective biological essentialism, now circulates more openly through elite tech and political discourse.

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