"If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."

That's neo-reactionary philosopher Curtis Yarvin in 2012, when he outlined a strategy that's eerily similar to how Trump and Musk are now destroying our government.  The "dark enlightenment" blogger, long a transgressive darling of the New Right, has in the last two months enjoyed a fresh round of mainstream exposure.

We look at a man who has the ear of those who are reshaping our world at breakneck speed.

Show Notes

That's Bait - by Jeff Sharlet

Kristi Noem Gets a MAGA Makeover - The New York Times

Kristi Noem’s New Teeth Are Blowing Up in Her Face | Vanity Fair

Venezuela-hired lawyers file petition in El Salvador aimed at freeing Venezuelans deported by US | AP News

Kristi Noem’s El Salvador Prison Photo Op Might Have Violated the Geneva Convention

Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posed in front of El Salvador prisoners wearing $50k watch  

Will Stancil: "The El Salvador government is using its concentration camp as a kind of Disneyland thrill ride for right-wing influencers”

Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 1 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)

Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 2 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)  

‘All life is a service’: The Contested Erotics of Fascism from Foucault to Frost – Retrospect Journal

Cathedrals of Erotic Misery • Ill Will

Politico Yarvin Interview

Financial Times on Dark Enlightenment

TIME on Dark Enlightenment

Common Dreams on Dark Enlightenment/DOGE

NYT Podcast End of Democracy

Jennifer Kollmer, 1971-2021 — Yarvin’s obit poem, TW on the rest of the blog!

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