|
Mrit posted:Accelerationism comes from the same place as small children knocking over the game board because they didn't win. Accelerationism is bad and dumb, but it somehow manages to be less idiotic than this idea that you (and way too many other people) seem to have that politics is just some team sport. Government policy dictates the society you live in and the opportunities you're given from birth until death to interact with that society. It has more influence over the trajectory of your life than any other factor outside of where and to whom you are born, and even that's arguable since it's politics that determines how strongly those other factors will affect you. People who get pissed off and want to burn it all down aren't loving sore losers. They're angry because people's entire lives are literally ruined by terrible policies.
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2015 13:55
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 8, 2024 06:14 |
|
|
DrSunshine posted:Wait, but if the system cannot be changed from within, and global revolution is impossible, and accelerationism just makes everything worse, what possible recourse is there? A slow(er) descent into shitsville because our systems of economics and governance aren't well equipped to deal with the kind of global challenges we're facing?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 22, 2015 17:51
|
|
|
There's no world history narrative that trends towards anything in particular and the history that does exist is literally filled with ups and downs by any measure you feel like using.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 22, 2015 18:59
|
|
|
asdf32 posted:The post industrial trends are pretty clear. Kind of completely missing the point here. Just because things might be better for our distant descendants 200 years into the future doesn't mean they won't be worse for our children in 40 years.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 22, 2015 22:59
|
|