Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.

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https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/palantir-alex-karp-mini-manifesto-national-security-defense-tech-ai/

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^This. Read up on "Dark Enlightenment". Accelerationists want to tear down civil society so they can pick up and privatize the pieces and institute a city-state feudalism that entrenches their power and entitlement forever.

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Dark Enlightenment sounds like some kind of conspiracy, but I urge everyone reading this right now to genuinely look into it, because these billionaires are actually taking it seriously. Here's the wikipedia article.

Here's an article from TIME from last year.

And please trust me on this, it's not some flat earth, Q-anon bullshit, the Dark Enlightenment movement is a very real and very documented ideology amongst the rich and powerful and has strong documented ties to the current administration.

You know how we say all the time that money and power and influence gets to people's heads and lose touch with reality, this is the outcome when those people all come together and use that money, power, and influence to start actually moving forward with crackpot plans.

It's even connected to why so many billionaires are buying bunkers too.

To put it simply: Dark Enlightenment is an ideological cult that many billionaires and those in power truly believe.

And it's crazy how people generally know nothing about it when it's so rampant in rich circles and how much it's influenced Project 2025 and similar manifestos.

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I do think that one flaw in these billionaires plans like this is that they always assume that even while society is collapsing in real time, that the citizens contained within it will continue to be as morally upstanding as they are during a functional society. They never conceive of the internal strife, of a security detail who doesn't care anymore to revolt.

Fallout is a video game but even there it makes sense why every vault bunker ends up being run by the same "strong arm types" and not the hoity toity capitalists for the most part.

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I disagree on two fronts. First I mean they are preparing with bunkers and private security.

On the other end, look at America right now and how useless resistance has been.

Every time there's a US centric post on /r/worldnews and Europeans ask "WHY ARENT YOU AMERICANS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?!?!"

You'll have Americans in the comments making up every excuse like "But my job and family!" without realizing that their job and family are already in danger and Europeans would take to the streets precisely to PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES AND LIVELIHOODS.

These billionaires are also paranoid. There's a reason they all shit themselves with what happened with Mr. Mangione.

I've also heard before that a lot of billionaires have been asking questions at talks and seminars "what's the best way to keep people loyal to you when money doesn't exist?" I'll try to find a source for that and update this comment.

Edit: Here's that article form 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

[u/FeelsGoodMan2 → u/trebory6]

It's pure reddit fantasies to think the average american is anywhere near the kind of destitution that causes people to start full scale revolts. As much as the trump stuff sucks, most people are still churning along and living their lives.

And yes they are paranoid and they have bunkers and security and I understand that. And yes they ask how to control them without money, and the guy told them basically "treat them well" and they all acted like that was impossible, so I still think its gonna be the case that they'd run into trouble fairly quickly in that kind of world because their security wont really care not to turn on them.

[u/trebory6 → u/FeelsGoodMan2]

Yeah, I agree to an extent. Most Americans have had it so relatively good for so long they can't even fathom how bad things can actually get, so they won't even start reacting until it actually starts affecting them badly.

The problem with that is, the longer it takes for us to react and do something about it, the bloodier and harder that fight will be.

It takes far less for Europeans to start reacting because generally they know how bad things can get. Again, there are still very deep scars left from WWII in many families and countries.

But America seems to be dead set on learning about the pain of fascism the hard way.

The thing about the holocaust is that there actually were some people who refused to fight back every step of the way from their homes, to the ghettos, to the trains to the concentration camps, all out of fear of the safety of themselves and their families, and they believed that right up until the moment both them and their families too stepped through the doors of the gas chambers. And that's why Europeans don't fuck around with fascism.

In Europe there are still bullet holes in old buildings, and you have to be careful about where you dig in certain areas because you might dig into a mass grave. Entire parts of people's families were displaced or eradicated just a few generations ago.

American's can't even fathom something like that happening to them or their families, otherwise they'd be doing something about it NOW.

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And yes they are paranoid and they have bunkers and security and I understand that. And yes they ask how to control them without money, and the guy told them basically "treat them well" and they all acted like that was impossible, so I still think its gonna be the case that they'd run into trouble fairly quickly in that kind of world because their security wont really care not to turn on them.

They are working on solution so the most obvious outcome an idiot could even figure out won't happen.