1. @darkmtn “The Dark Mountian Project” is implicitly neo-reactionary or of the “Dark Enlightenment”. How so? The Dark Mountain Project is an undertaking of disillusioned Guardian-reading types who think the Earth cannot be saved from climate change.
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9. It’s a programme Martin Heidegger could have gotten behind. It’s similar to the way The Sierra Club and ecowarrior Edward Abbey had qualms about immigration on environmental grounds. Abbey was an anarchist, too. He was like Theodore K.
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10. Anyway, “The Dark Mountain” is what happens when liberals and Guaridan readers give up hope and start to become reactionaries. They don’t realise it, but that’s the path they’re on. “Putting death before them,” as Heidegger might have said.
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11. Read their manifesto here: http://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/ … (Note ref to Robinson Jeffers). Interestingly, it was published in 2009 around the same time Moldbug became active. I believe this was a turning point. The beginning of the “Fourth Turning” predicted by Strauss and Howe.
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12. Strauss and Howe said the unravelling stage of the crisis “turning” would start around 2005. It was 2008 with the Great Recession. These blogs, Unqualified Reservations and the Dark Mountain manifesto, were part of the unravelling.
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13. As we head toward the denouement of the crisis in 2025, I believe these trends will solidify into ideologies—probably quite removed and simplified from the originals. We already see this with Moldbug’s work. Dark Mountain May trend a similar path.
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14. I’m superstitious so I’m adding this tweet so as not to end on “13”.
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