This episode contains discussion of white nationalist ideology, surveillance infrastructure, and the philosophical foundations of contemporary authoritarianism. References to slavery apologetics and eugenics are quoted directly from primary sources for documentary purposes. If Kayfabe Nation was the show, this is the backstage tour. In this supplemental Wireland Now episode, we follow the money and the philosophy underneath the memes — from Curtis Yarvin, a blogger who got kicked off Reddit so many times he had to invent classical pseudonyms, to Peter Thiel, the PayPal billionaire who wrote "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" and then spent two decades building the infrastructure to prove it. This is the Dark Enlightenment: a movement that argues democracy was always fake, the Enlightenment was a mistake, and what we really need is efficient authoritarian rule by a CEO-king. It sounds like fringe manifesto shit that maybe twelve people read on a blog in 2008. Problem is, those twelve people included the current Vice President of the United States. We trace the lines from Yarvin's RAGE (Retire All Government Employees) to Musk's DOGE. From Thiel's Palantir — named after Tolkien's instruments of tyranny — to the ImmigrationOS system tracking deportations in real time. From Masayoshi Son standing on a box at a White House podium promising $500 billion he doesn't have, to the data centers rising in Abilene, Texas, where 1,500 construction workers will become 57 permanent jobs while residents can't find housing and the city gave away 85% of property taxes for the next twenty years. Seven gigawatts of planned capacity. Portals to other worlds. They're not building a god — they're building a throne room. - Curtis Yarvin / Mencius Moldbug and the Dark Enlightenment / Neoreaction (NRx) - Peter Thiel: PayPal, Palantir, Clearview AI, and the architecture of Total Information Awareness - The RAGE → DOGE pipeline (Retire All Government Employees → Department of Government Efficiency) - Thiel/Yarvin relationship (leaked emails: "fully enlightened, just plays it very carefully") - Marco Rubio's note-passing and the kayfabe of governance - Masayoshi Son and Stargate financing (standing on a box, borrowing against ARM stock) - Elon Musk's failed attempt to torpedo the UAE Stargate deal - The infrastructure: Palantir + Clearview + ImmigrationOS + Crusoe + Oracle + Stargate - Data center community impact: Abilene housing crisis, Project Jupiter opposition in New Mexico - The bipartisan surveillance machine (Obama → Biden → Trump continuity) - Thiel's Nvidia exit and the pump-and-dump Written, narrated, sound designed and produced by Joseph Rutledge Executive Producer: Nicholas Cooper Cover art by Bradly Findly Wireland Now is a supplemental series from the Wireland universe, produced by Joseph Rutledge and Wireland.lol for Bloody FM. I could use some of yr money to make more agitprop. For sources, transcripts, and the receipts: [link] The Dope Show premieres March 9, 2026. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
