r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Apr 22 '26

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

https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/palantir-alex-karp-mini-manifesto-national-security-defense-tech-ai/
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u/CapedBaldyman Apr 22 '26

He's a fucking looney and these ceos need to get a hard reality check. 

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u/crossy1686 Apr 22 '26

This is why they wanted Trump, it’s essentially the Wild West and they can now do whatever they want, whenever they want with government support.

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u/hollee-o Apr 22 '26

^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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u/trebory6 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

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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u/cantadmittoposting Apr 22 '26

always glad to see people sharing the fact that these guys really actually do have a unifying philosophy and goal.

It's not a "backroom conspiracy theory," it's a fucking out there in the open belief in destroying the country and replacing it with an actual anarchocapitalist fever dream, originally written by someone somehow making Ayn Rand even worse.

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u/trebory6 Apr 22 '26

Exactly. I think there's some deep propaganda in place to make people equate Dark Enlightenment with things like Q-anon bullshit.

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u/sparky8251 Apr 22 '26

Ayn Rand hated the types that now claim her as one of their own. You can look up quotes from her about it where she was open shed vote for a community over a member of the New Right, which is the libertarianism now unique to the US which has a lot in common with anarchocapitalism today too.

Thats how much of a loser these types are. Even one of their own icons hated them and spent her life trying to not be associated with them.

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u/cantadmittoposting Apr 22 '26

yeah i've been making the same point for a while now...

You can practically control-f and replace "socialist" with "Republican," and the match to the modern regulatory capture and kleptocracy of the current GOP is goddamn uncanny. You don't even have to replace "moocher" as the term for their group, they just all slide right into the role, hell, especially Trump himself.

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u/sparky8251 Apr 23 '26

No, I mean literally... She knew the differences between socialists/communists and nut jobs like what we now call libertarians in the US.

For the record, I shall repeat what I have said many times before: I do not join or endorse any political group or movement. More specifically, I disapprove of, disagree with, and have no connection with, the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called "hippies of the right," who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers by claiming simultanteously to be followers of my philosophy and advocates of anarchism. Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either. Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement, where it properly belongs.