Those cases make me think about maybe people just don’t care enough for the most serious issues. They don’t impact their lives enough to sparkle some urgent action
I think this is the most compelling point that accelerationism has going for it. Revolutions are full of hardship, while people have gotten used to the conveniences of the status quo. Systemic problems are often distant and/or obfuscated, whereas this one was immediate and apparent to those impacted. It’s not a huge leap in logic to consider if the systemic problems could be made more immediate and apparent by making things worse on the short term.
Those cases make me think about maybe people just don’t care enough for the most serious issues. They don’t impact their lives enough to sparkle some urgent action
I think this is the most compelling point that accelerationism has going for it. Revolutions are full of hardship, while people have gotten used to the conveniences of the status quo. Systemic problems are often distant and/or obfuscated, whereas this one was immediate and apparent to those impacted. It’s not a huge leap in logic to consider if the systemic problems could be made more immediate and apparent by making things worse on the short term.
It’s very disheartening, to say the least. I dream of a real revolution, and yet it seems very unlikely.