3. But, substantially, they believe there are too many people and that we are doomed to catastrophe by technology. This deep pessimism is fundamentally reactionary, as is their interest in the telluric and rooted. Back to earth and, impcitly, back to blood.
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4. One of the writers involved in “Dark Mountain”, Paul Kingsnorth, has written a novel “The Wake” (2013) about the Norman invasion of England. The heroes are Anglo-Saxon freemen, and it’s written in an imagined dialect of the time.
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5. The idea of a “deep England” under the Norman yoke is a hard right theme that exculpates the English from empire by saying this cosmopolitan entity was a creation of an oppressive Norman aristocracy. The counterpoint to this is the rooted & free Anglo-Saxon man.
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6. We recognise a similar theme in US libertarian writings. The theme also appears in a voluminous suicide note left by Mitchell Heisman, an amateur intellectual who killed himself in the Harvard Yard in 2010.
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7. The rooted, practical, and productive Anglo-Saxon is counterposed to the “parasitic” Norman. If you look at landownership in England today you will find a hughe slice of it is still owned by descendants of the Norman aristos.
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8. English nationalists maintain that they are still under the yoke of the aristos. Anyway, “Dark Mountain” recapitulates these themes: eco despair, technological despair, catastrophic thinking, fear of overpopulation, Paganism, rootedness to the land, numinosity.
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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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