Introduction

What is this ****, anyway?

Why are these people are relevant

The Course of Action

Sources

A storm is brewing on the horizon. One disdainful of human rights, egalitarianism, and all of the political advances made in the past few centuries. The threat is made up not by fundamentalists or right-wing militia members, but by software engineers, executives, college students, and billionaires. This storm is known as the Dark Enlightenment, Neoreaction, or my personal term, Enrix. Thanks to Trump’s recent victory, Enrixers stand to gain covert influence over the politics of the United States and other Western countires. While it may seem like this movement is fringe at best, it would be dangerous to ignore it for reasons I will outline later in this post. However, a more detailed explanation of Neoreaction/Enrix is required.For those of you not familiar with it, Neoreaction/Enrix is a far-right movement advocating anti-democratic authoritarian monarchy or corporatocracy, traditional gender roles, (pseudo)scientific racism, extreme laissez-fair capitalism, and anti-egaliterian ideology, often combined with transhumanism or futurism [1] . Enrixers frequently combine these toxic ideals with a belief in a vast, if informal, emergent, and unorganized, conspiracy by both mainstream left-wing and right-wing politicians and educators to promote Progressive ideologies, in Enrixers’ heads, any political ideology featuring Enlightenment ideals of human rights, democracy, and egalitarianism. This “conspiracy” is referred to as “The Cathedral,” and Enrixers believe that only they have “woken up” from it and seen the so-called “truth.” Many enrixers, to quote RationalWiki, “used to be former libertarians who realised that they didn’t actually like freedom for others all that much. [2] ” While it may be suprising that worshipers of the NAP would suddenly switch to wishing for an Orwellian dystopia, much of the dark undercurrent of libertarian thought is full expressed in Neoreaction. For this reason, the bulk of Enrixers are Silicon Valley geeks, young right-wingers of the same type that fueled Gamergate, and tech billionaires, who, not content with their already vast amount of wealth, seek to seize political power for themselves and crush the common folk under their fancy shoes. The movement also has the support of some Christian Traditionalists, but they are marginal in the greater scheme of things, and Neoreactionary rhetoric about the “Cathedral,” rationalist style, belief that Progressivism was created by Protestant Christianity would likely attract right-wing scientific antitheists of the likes of TheAmazingAtheist and Thunderf00t more than it would attract fundamentalists.While seemingly a marginal movement confined to underground societies and the blogosphere, Neoreactionary ideas are more widespread amongst the Silicon Valley software elite than one would expect. In fact, the founder of Neoreaction, Curtis Yarvin, is a programmer and entrepeneur. The most overt proponent of these ideas is Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Paypal who supported Donald Trump in the election, and as shall be seen later, has secured himself a spot in the future Trump administration. In an essay written in 2009, Peter Thiel blamed the failure of libertarian ideals on women’s sufferage and the New Deal, declaring that “[he] no longer believes that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Obviously, the people would never enjoy the glorious misery power of the free market and voluntary will, especially the working-class slobs, opressed minorities, and feminists, and their voices must be silenced for the Greater FREER Good. It is likely that Thiel’s political beliefs have drifted even farther to the right over time, and now, after Trump’s historically horrifying upset victory, he is able to influence his chosen candidate. According to the BBC, Peter Thiel has been conducting meetings with Donald Trump and will be “a key member of the Trump transition team. [3] ” It is through Thiel’s example that the true threat of Neoreaction can be glimpsed. Many of the people sympathetic to Neoreactionary ideas are not working-class whites afflicted by false consciousness, no, they are some of the most influential individuals in the United States, tech moguls and engineers who drive much of the expansion of the economy. They are based in a country where donors have their agenda enacted far more easily than the ordinary citizen [4] , where unlimited campaign contributions equals free speech, and the wealth of proponents is just as powerful as the popularity of ideas. It is in this climate of elitism and kleptocracy that Neoreaction sprouts and thrives. The facists and Nazis required populism to seize power, but for Enrixers, the American Oligarchy has removed the necessity of that tactic. All that is required is to covertly influence our elected representatives, and the figurative Sith Lords will have become our sovereigns.The Enrixers, Alties, and Trumpists can still be defeated. Never before has public protest, grassroots organizing, and community activism been all the more critical. We must keep the actions of President Pussygrabber, his cronies, and the tech elites under constant surveilance, and counter any Reactionary actions with a powerful response. The fate of democracy itself may be at stake, and it is necessary to put our best efforts to ensure that the world does not evolve into that from George Orwell’s 1984. Go out, and never cease in your vigilance. For the meek must still inherit the Earth.[1] http://neorxn.com/introduction [2] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreaction [3] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38315682