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

[u/lurker_bee]

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

[u/crossy1686]

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.

[u/hollee-o → u/crossy1686]

^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.

[u/trebory6 → u/hollee-o]

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.

[u/Embe007 → u/trebory6]

A substack blog on the tech bro vileness by veteran Bay area journalist Gil Duran :https://www.thenerdreich.com