In Curtis Yarvin’s New Monarchy: Technology, Power, and the End of Democracy , Samson Harper delivers a searing philosophical takedown of the most influential reactionary thinker of the digital age. Tracing Yarvin’s journey from software developer to anti-democratic theorist, Harper exposes how the “Dark Enlightenment” transforms the promise of technology into a blueprint for authoritarian control. This is not just a critique of one man’s ideology — it is a warning about a cultural shift that seeks to replace freedom with management and politics with programming. Combining moral urgency with intellectual precision, Harper dismantles the illusion of the “efficient state” and reaffirms the messy, miraculous necessity of democracy in an age addicted to control.