The Dark Enlightenment and Nick Land

Nick Land's essay 'The Dark Enlightenment' discusses his views on Western decadence, democracy, and the East's potential for future development. He favors autocracy, hierarchy, and economic deregulation, and believes the West is being driven to decline by democracy and race mixing. Land admires leaders like Xi Jinping in China and Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia for their ability to exercise control and their contempt for human life. Although Land doesn't have a specific manifesto, his writings express a desire for more autocratic and authoritarian systems that prioritize power and elite control over democracy and egalitarianism. He also has contemptuous views on women, queer people, and minorities.