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The following is from a March 24, 2025, Time Magazine article:

What Is Dark Enlightenment:

This appears to be a sequel to “Project 2025”, and it is on the fast track under the current fascist regime.

The rise of the “Dark Enlightenment” movement and its most vocal steward: software engineer and blogger Curtis Yarvin.

Using a variety of mixed metaphors, Yarvin advocates for a “Butterfly Revolution,” a “full power start” to the U.S. government accomplished by “giving absolute sovereignty to a single organization." This is imagined as an internal coup meant to privatize the government and replace democracy with complete executive authority. Two years ago, Yarvin laid out his strategic program with the acronym “RAGE,” or “Retire all government employees.” Yarvin argued that a hypothetical future Trump administration should terminate all nonpolitical federal workers to have them be replaced by loyalists. The government’s coffers must then be impounded and redirected, according to the blogger. When courts prevent unconstitutional orders, Yarvin says that they should just be ignored. After that, the free press and universities must be curtailed, as well—Yarvin said no later than April after the inauguration.

That so much of this seems to mirror the actions of the Trump administration and DOGE may not be a coincidence. So far, some 30,000 federal employees—across departments as varied as the FDA, the National Park Service, and the FAA—have been fired by DOGE in the name of government efficiency. Yarvin’s musings in 2009 that the “definition of a sovereign is that a sovereign is above the law,” hold a mirror to Trump’s February tweet that “He who save his country, violates no law.”

Here's the link to the Time Magazine article:

https://time.com/7269166/dark-enlightenment-history-essay/

We have abandoned our spirit and our dream that America provides equal opportunity for all. We have become Apathetic and uninvolved in our society. Our voices are needed now more than ever before in our lives. The potential destruction of our way of living is real. The threat of authoritarianism in an oligarchy regime is real. We are a force of over 60 million voices. We are a movement in waiting. So, let’s move loudly.

Tyranny requires our fear and our silence and our compliance. Democracy requires our courage. So let us gather our forgotten spirit of the 60’s and show our combined strength to make our voices herd loudly and clearly. We will not let the tragic spirit of despair overcome us.

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The direction that this country is heading is very much up in the air. I have been processing my own reactions to recent happenings. I have concluded that I cannot change what has happened, but I can change my response. 

Make no mistake, I am still angry today. I will continue to support groups fighting for freedom for all people. We are part of a diverse society. Let’s respect each of our individual choices.

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