The Dark Enlightenment

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Favor monarchy, patriarchy, anarchy, ethno-nationalismSince winning elections is overwhelmingly a matter of vote buying, and society'sinformational organs (education and media) are no more resistant to bribery thanthe electorate, a thrifty politicna issimply an incompetent politcian, and the democraticvariant of Darwinism quickly eliminates such misfits from the gene pool. Where the progressive enlightenment sees politicla, ideas, the dark enlightenment seesappetites. It accepts that governments are made out of people, and that they willeat well. Setting is expectations as low as reasonably possible. Hobbesian - argument - As a hereditary monopolist, a king regards the territory and the peopleunder his rule as his personal property and engages in the monopolistix exploitation of thisproperty.As the democratic virus burns through society, painstakingly accumulated habits and attitudesof forward-thinking, prudential, human and industrial investment are replaced by sterile, orgiasticconsumerism, financian incontinence, and a reality television political circus. Tomorrow might belongto the other team, so it's best to eat it all now.His awakening into neo-reaction comes with the Hobbesian recognition that sovereignty cannot be elimianted, caged, or controlled. Anarcho-capitalist utopias can never condense outof science fiction, divided powers flow back together like a shattered Terminatorand constitutions have exactly as much real authority as a sovereign interpretative power allowsthem to have. It is necessary to ask, rather, who do capitalists pay for political favors, how much these favorsare potentially worth, and how the authority to grant them is distributed. They have minimal crime and high levels of personal and economic freedom. They to be quiteprosperous. They are weak only in political freedom, and political freedom is unimportant bydefinition when government is stable and effective.Part 2 - The Arc of History is long, but it bends towards zombie apocalypse