Mencius Moldbug, founder of the Dark Enlightenment, writes in 2009:
Let’s say you… wanted to take America back to the past and establish a new order of hereditary nobility… First, we need to define noble status. Our rule is simple: if either of your parents was a noble, you’re a noble… And nobility remains a biological quality – a noble baby adopted by common parents is noble, a common baby adopted by noble parents is common…
The basic quality of a noble is that he or she is presumed to be better than commoners. Of course, both nobles and commoners are people. And people do vary. Individual circumstances must always be considered. However, the official presumption is that, in any conflict between a noble and a commoner, the noble is right and the commoner is wrong. Therefore, by default, the noble should win.
…Commoners and nobles will inevitably come into conflict. Our goal is to settle these conflicts, by default, in favor of the noble. For example, if a business must choose whether to hire one of two equally qualified applicants, and one is a noble while the other is a commoner, it should of course choose the noble. The same is true for… any other contest of merit. Our presumption is that while nobles are intrinsically, inherently and immeasurably superior to commoners, any mundane process for evaluating individuals will fail to detect these ethereal qualities – for which the outcome must therefore be adjusted.
