The chaos is real. America’s not coming back. - Victoria Times Colonist
In late February, I fell across this online. The title alone, Dark MAGA, was seductive. The more I read, the more I thought I was reading a sci-fi movie treatment (lightly edited):
If you’re a little confused about what Elon Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE, here’s the breakdown:
Musk and Peter Thiel co-founded a company that became PayPal. Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms.
This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they basically controlled Silicon Valley. Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm.
Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign.
The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.
Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent “The Cathedral” that secretly controls power and must be dismantled.
He advocates for a corporate run monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator. Says that Democracy is “outdated software” and openly opposes it and that the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to “fix” society.
The strategy is to gut the government and to replace it with private corporations; to eliminate elections because they are “obsolete;” to use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.
Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control. They are not Trump supporters, they are “Dark MAGA” This isn’t a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:
Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions. If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.
You think, “Aw, c’mon. This is some drugged-out superannuated adolescent’s takeover fantasy.”
In any case, I forgot about this paranoid riff until I caught an online episode of “Laura Flanders and Friends” with Canadian authors Naomi Klein (Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything) and Astra Taylor (The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart).
Klein, in particular, has been online wallpaper lately, reporting on what she calls “End Times Fascism.”
As she describes it, the tech oligarchs (the “Broligarchy,” the “Nerd Reich”) are eager to create exclusive and presumably impermeable, self-regulated minute “countries” on U.S. federal lands, and/or in Greenland and Honduras (check the existing Prospera City), as the rest of society destroys itself. At the same time, Klein warns, ultra-right Christian fascists, sensing the approach of the Rapture, are poised to overpower what’s left of American democracy.
Friends, have you noticed how hallucinatory reality has become?
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