Rob Henderson uses "Dark Enchantment" as a recurring label for the class-signaling dynamics that have intensified since roughly 2010 — the performative displays of virtue, taste, and concern that function less as beliefs and more as positional goods for the credentialed class. The phrase suggests that what looks like sincere conviction is often a kind of aesthetic spell, binding elites to one another while mystifying outsiders. Treating it as a named concept lets scattered phenomena — woke branding, dating app bios, neighborhood politics — resolve into one coherent market.
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