Dark Enlightenment

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The Dark Enlightenment is a political and philosophical ideology that rejects many of the values and principles of the Enlightenment, such as ,  egalitarianism, and. It advocates for the rule of a select elite, who are seen as superior to the masses, and a return to traditional social and political hierarchies.

Neoreactionary Neologisms
The Neoreactionary movement introduced a plethora of neologisms to describe various concepts, which have since made their way into political discourse beyond the movement's confines.

The Neologisms include:


 * The Cathedral - "The Cathedral" refers to a society's intellectual elite, a group of people who determine what the average person considers true or false, right or wrong, and important or unimportant. This role was traditionally played by religious institutions, hence the term "cathedral." In modern times, however, this function is fulfilled by a network of institutions that includes schools, universities, media outlets, and the entertainment industry, which promote themselves as "secular."

It is worth noting that the Cathedral is not a formal institution to which people belong, but rather an informal network of leaders from the aforementioned institutions who generally agree on important matters. For example, institutions such as Harvard, The New York Times, Disney, and The Guardian rarely disagree on critical issues.


 * [[File:Redpill.png]] Redpill - In Neoreactionary discourse, a "Redpill" refers to any realization or experience that severs an individual's ties with the established Cathedral, named after the popular film trilogy, The Matrix. It is arguably the most influential term to have emerged from the NRx movement, having become virtually ubiquitous across the political spectrum.

The concept of the Redpill is THE most influential term to come out of the NRx movement, being practically ubiqutous within political discourse on both the left, right, centre and beyond. The term "Redpill" spawned many off-shoots generally named after the specific realisation the redpill provides (including terms Blackpill (Pessimism),  Whitepill (Optimism), Greenpill (parnamormalism) and more) and also the combination with the term "Based" forming "Based and Redpilled". The various pills have also expanded into apolitical contexts, especially on dating (examples of dating-specific pills being the Purplepill and the Dogpill) and fitness (example of a fitness-specific pills including the Onionpill).

A variant of the term "Redpill" that originated from the NRx movement is the Clearpill, which refers to the idea that the most effective way to arrive at political conclusions is to detach oneself from emotional attachments to current political factions and assess policies and systems from an outsider's perspective.


 * The Iron Polygon - The Iron Polygon is an extension of the concept of the Iron Triangle.


 * Red and Blue Empire also called the Red and Blue Governments - The concepts of the Red and Blue Government, clipped to RedGov and BlueGov is a specific power analysis of U.S. politics, it's the notion that the United States is not under the control of a single government, but rather of two each with their own internal and foreign policies.

Those two Empires being the Military and Police-based Red Empire represented in the U.S. congress by the Republican Party and the Blue Empire based around every other part of the iron polygon represented by the Democratic Party.

The Trichotomy
The Trichotomy is a political theory created by Spandrell in his blog Bloody Shoovel popularised by other neoreactionaries specially Nick Land,it establishes that there are three lines of thought in the reactionary movement in a similar way as the three states of the realm:the ethno-nationalists ,the Techno-merchants and Traditional-religious  all of which share his hate to egalitarianism in one form or other. Each one has their own structures and hierarchies which are intersectionally connected between them. [7 ].

Unprincipled Exception
An unprincipled exception is a policy that violates some absolute principle of ethics held by the policymaker,but is not openly acknowledged as such a violation.

Types of Societies
Moldbug says there are 3 types of Societies according to their relationship between opinion and authority.

Type 1: The Loyal Society is one where public opinion is a matter of state security, thoughts are categorised in two: bad thoughts that are dangerous to the safety of the state and good thoughts that are useful for the state, people are  punished for expressing bad thoughts or rewarded for expressing good or ideally both, the state supports a set of official information organs which uses to install good thoughts and prevent and/or prohibit the spreading of bad thoughts into the population.

Type 2: The Society of Consensus is a society in which the press and media controls the authority, it's hallmark is the phenomenon of spontaneous coordination which consists in produce an official information system which in all other respects resembles that of a type 1 society but which is not responsible to any central authority or institution.

Type 3: The Open Society is a society where is a free market of divergent ideas and institutions competing which one are closer to reality.

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