If you want to understand the dark side of progressivism, you could do a lot worse than spend your time watching this movie (on recommendation from Moldbug).
This article provides a bit of background (not on the movie but on the animal rights movement). And here is the movie’s Wikipedia page. The documentary focuses on this group.
I think Moldbug pointed out how creepy this dude is, but it bears repeating. I couldn’t sleep after I watched the video because he scared the shit out of me.
[...] for him – much like progressivism just is for us today. At best, you can only hope to catch dark glances of what progressivism really is. The reactionary seeks to escape this state of [...]