While Donald Trump drives the outward appearance of the party and is the figurehead for the hundreds of far-right and corporate interests, JD Vance is the figurehead for a coalition of forces that are much newer to the political scene and represent a reactionary, far-right contingent of venture capitalists. This reactionary venture capital structure is both within the more traditional markets and a number of the wealthiest and most vocal members of the Silicon Valley elite who have previously backed or are currently back openly authoritarian (and in some cases totalitarian) business ventures. Some of these ventures, like the thinly veiled Techno fascist parallel state project that includes a mixture of New Right thinkers and neo-reactionaries, like Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Nick Bostrom, Michael Shallenberger, Richard Haninia, and others, look to redefine society and the governmental power structures built as a bulwark for democracy. This will attempt to look more fully at Vance and the heart of the neo-reactionary movement, specifically Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin’s fascist view of power, society, domination, and the Dark Enlightenment.

The Dark Enlightenment stands out as a particularly stark departure from the mainstream. Rooted in a reactionary critique of modern liberal democracy, The Dark Enlightenment offers a vision of the future that is a techno-fascist reflection of those imagining it. It represents a world in which multiple far-right belief systems coexist and comingle: monarchism and neo-fascist accelerationism live side by side ‘post-left’ and third positionesque fascist beliefs and more subtle, but nonetheless dangerous, permeations like the pro-natalism movement and its barely hidden techno-babble wrapped racism and digitally enhanced eugenics. At the forefront of this movement’s philosophy is Nick Land, a philosopher whose work has garnered both a dark fascination and increasing controversy.

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