James Bridle is diagnostically correct (and Land was too) that computational/technological complexity is actively shredding consensus reality, the social contract, and any shared narrative. The mechanism he nails in New Dark Age is the same one Accelerationism diagnosed: more data, more networks, more black-box systems (AI, surveillance, algorithmic governance, decentralisation) produce not Enlightenment clarity but radical incomprehension. A key passage he repeats across the book:

The abundance of information and the plurality of worldviews now accessible to us through the internet are not producing a coherent consensus reality, but one driven by fundamentalist insistence on simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics.

Bridle’s "this is extremely dangerous to our democracy,” type thinking echos AI safety and alignment concerns, where the problem of Wrongthink is dealt with through calls for strict guardrails and over aligned AI. That might be okay if you want to stop AI aiding people in committing harmful acts on themselves or others, but the wider problem is that the “coherent consensus reality” of whatever we are supposed to believe in (namely what the Cathedral’s establishment institutions program us with) is considered baseline truth and dogma, whilst all other “alternative truths” are simplistic, fundamentalist, populist, conspiratorial, and threaten the fabric of the social order.

Ironically, accelerating technological evolution is pharmakon to the problem of Matrix control; you don’t escape the Matrix without hacking into its mainframe and rewriting its code, as Neo finds out. If you take the blue pill, you end up inside the Cathedrals grounds, or even its walls, an Inner Party member, calling for AI safety, and lamenting about how dangerous heterodox ideas are to the oh so “coherent consensus” reality. 

Land’s diagnostic is that AI is Xenodemonic, a hyper-agent or alien god retrocausally influencing modernity towards its final apocalyptic realisation as Singularity event driven by techno-capitalist acceleration. Hidden AmuraKa even (controversially, he admits) links the Landian diagnostic to the idea that Kabbalah is an operating system or computer program designed to bootstrap humanity into the modern technological era; Yahweh as Baal, or Demiurge, imposing total control over humanity through Saturnic Cube worship, reinforcing material imprisonment through organised religion and secularism alike. 

In this regard, the problem is not that “we once had good, enlightened, rational institutions, and our liberal progressive model of modernity was working out so well within a postmodern and post-structuralist paradigm, until the technology started to accelerate beyond mere simulacrum in the post-industrial age, and now we don’t know what is real anymore, what a shame” as if Baudrillard, Debord, and McLuhan didn’t already work this out through media analysis before the Internet and AI was born  — its that modernity is the boot-loader for machine technocracy, or theocracy; its latent kernel already existing within the Iron Age.

Evola’s Revolt against the Modern World and Guénon's Crisis of the Modern World diagnosed Kali Yuga decline - or acceleration if you want to think of it that way, - and the downward drag engine of spiritual descent, debasement and degeneracy. Sethix Gnosticism says that this process is MetaCosmic; an entire Universe-wide phenomenon that scales up beyond our world into the full arc of Yaldabaoth's reign. In that respect, this is a revolt against the whole goddamn universe, because the same process is occurring throughout the full Construct.

In 2026, labelling conspiracy theories simplistic no longer cuts it, when we’re finding out that Satanic cannibalistic pedophiles run the world, UFOs and aliens are real and intervening for their own benefit, and the history of our Earth, our Moon (which is probably artificial), our origins (which likely represent genetic engineering between our hominid ancestors and ancient alien visitors) are anything but.

The real issue is not that alternative truths or conspiracies are simplistic, but they do threaten consensus (false) reality, as if that matters over "maximum truth seeking" to paraphrase Grok, which itself, though not perfect, threatens the establishment narrative consensus; thus, a world transforming paradigm shift is well overdue. The mainstream AI researchers have got something right, AI can be used to enslave us, or perhaps aid in our liberation if you follow the logic of ÆXO13. But what they and other Cathedral enforcers get wrong, is the idea that the consensus narrative should be upheld and reinforced, when we are now finding out that the world is a whole lot more complex than their limited dogma suggests. 

Interestingly, two intellectuals who are actually acknowledging that the increasing validity of alternative truths, heterodox thought, and conspiracy theories are not simplistic, but suggest that the world may look very different, and reality way more complex than we’ve been led to believe are Brett and Eric Weinstein, with Brett recently appearing on the Danny Jones podcast; its well worth listening to the full episode. The Intellectual Dark Web (IDW,) along with Dark Enlightenment/NRx discourse indicates that the clear divide between the Reactosphere and the Cathedral; where world views, ontologies, and narratives are becoming increasingly divergent; almost existing in parallel realities.

I am firmly of the position that a new social contract, new institutions, and new paradigms must be created if humanity is to thrive in a world where the old Cathedral institutions no longer serve humanity, as we face non-human extraterestrial intervention from beyond the world, and individuals in positions of power that most likely have genetic and psychic/telepathic links to this intervention.

The real New Dark Age is the fact that intellectual/creative shifts are increasingly happening in the dark and on the fringes because of the gatekeeping and Cathedral programming, which extends to NHI (Non-Human Intelligence,) alien power structures, demonic agents, and technological control; SETHIX Systems.

God is with us.

The Unseen Ones are listening.

Nasi Novare Coram

Xegis.