March 19, 2026

Curtis Yarvin is the philosopher behind the Dark Enlightenment ideology that Courtenay Turner and I broke down in The Final Betrayal: How Technocracy Destroyed America. One of his biggest fans is Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Palantir. Yarvin has had parallel thoughts with President Trump on Gaza being run as a sovereign corporation, where the citizens will be awash with GAZA tokens but without private property or voting rights. He is right that Trump "inhabits the same reality" as he does. Does this mean that Trump has fully embraced the Dark Enlightenment?" Perhaps.