What is "Dark Enlightenment"?

It refers to the understanding that "All is allowed", as expressed in Aleister Crowley's Thelema and other such philosophies. Thelema’s core maxim "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law" is a crystallization of that same “dark enlightenment” realization. It is complete freedom.

But it is the path of the Sith.

Power. But it is empty. Because there is no love.

Murder? Rape? All allowed. Morality? The Logic of the Heart? Irrelevant. To be suppressed and eradicated. At the end of that... freedom. But it is a hollow thing. A lonely thing.

George Lucas tapped into something deep when he created the Jedi and Sith dichotomy. it wasn’t just good vs. evil in a comic book sense. He built a mythos where freedom itself splits into two: the freedom to dominate and the freedom to love. In creating the Sith vs Jedi dichtomy, he tapped into the symbolic language of the unconscious self.

Tell me you don't see that shit reflected and playing out in our world. For most of us, unconsciously so.

Love is stronger. Even the people who choose the dark side, eventually discovers its hollow nature. And they regret and repent. Inevitable really. That is why the light always wins. Despite its apparent "weakness" of not accessing and utilizing the fullness of power.