Many artists, writers, and political revolutionaries have written and published manifestos throughout world history. Many of which have long been forgotten, relegated – for better or worse – to the deep and crowded dust bin of history. Others, like the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto, still live on today, either in practice or in the hearts and minds of devout followers who one day would like to see their revolution play out in real life.
On April 18, 2:45 p.m. EST, the American data analytics and government surveillance contractor Palantir published its own manifesto that included 22 excerpts from CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. The document went viral, drawing fierce scrutiny from the left. But it went largely unnoticed on the right, and there are a few reasons why that was the case – the biggest being that Palantir is simply a right-wing-coded company.
But make no mistake: there’s a much darker and nefarious side to Palantir’s agenda. If you read between the lines of this manifesto, you will soon discover that Palantir is actually calling for an entirely new form of government, one that runs afoul of our Constitution and the vision of the Founding Fathers. It is calling for the creation of a more powerful, revamped deep state. It is ultimately calling for America to become the very thing it has long fought throughout its history: a highly centralized totalitarian regime.