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by DaveZale
280 days ago
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Yes, but online cliques like "accelerationists" are said to exist. Sounds like they are anarchist-like, trying to accelerate the destruction of society. Anyone else hear about this? The wiki seems to indicate thar this, too, preceded the internet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism |
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But is the online talk a meaningful cause of real-world bad stuff, or a symptom or side-effect?
I'd say that Accelerationism was (in effect) a real-world thing for over century before the ~1970 thinking that Wikipedia cites as its background. Just look at the staggering social and technological upheavals from 1850 to 1950. At the start, a sail-powered wooden warship, capable of 10-ish MPH and using gunpowder to fire small balls of iron, was still pretty much state of the art for a major nation projecting military power. At the end, that state of the art was intercontinental bombers dropping atomic warheads.
And no techno-capitalist ideology was needed to force those changes. Nations which wanted to be (or stay) on the world's A List had to change, invent, and industrialize as fast as they could, just to keep up. Nations which couldn't, or didn't, faded into obscurity.