GOP flipped all 3 offices in VA today.
If this trend continues in 2022, then Republicans might fully control enough states to unilaterally change the US Constitution.
GOP flipped all 3 offices in VA today.
If this trend continues in 2022, then Republicans might fully control enough states to unilaterally change the US Constitution.
Seriously though, accelerationism as any kind of 'ideology' is horrific shit, but when hellowlrd just keeps getting worse and worse and worse with no indication it will change course, it's like accelerationism is the only last ditch hope left. If things truly get bad enough, maybe the pendulum will finally just have to swing back in the direction of anti-suffering, anti-hell.
Sorry I'm drunk and stupid to begin with even when not drunk.
Accelerationism, not what you hoped for but it's all you have left to hope for.
Perfect summary.
yeah. that's essentially where I'm at. like, it wouldn't be my first choice ideology on its own. but it helps me feel a little less miserable about things and kind of gives me some small hope. like, maybe if Miami gets washed away unexpectedly soon, we'll actually mobilize to tackle climate change for real or something.
Exactly. Be careful of that hope, though. Because then that leads down the rabbit hole of asking exactly how bad does it have to get? If Miami goes under and millions die and the whole landscape, literally, figuratively, politically, economically... is washed onto shores that were never meant to be shores (or choose any other capitalism-caused barely-comprehensible megadisaster) and what if the result is the libs all just go straight, unmaksed, unapologetically fash? Does the pendulum just keep 'a-swingin' further right? How deep does hell go before the only other way is out of it?
But fucking hell, it often seems that the only direction left to fucking go.
Well, I don’t think we have any sort of control over whether that happens, and what happens next. Like 0
Oh, totally agreed! If we had any control, accelerationism wouldn't be the winning ideology. That's the scary part, maybe it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.... (now that's doomerism!)
Idk if it’s accelerationism or doomerism. Like the book is only so long. What comes after doomerism? Is there like an accepting deathism or something
Edit - this is a privileged comment, nvm. Others would be suffering more than I would
I'm not 100% sure I know what you're getting at, but I see it as accelerationsism leading to one of a spectrum of possibilities. On one end of the spectrum, you have a good, positive outcome, where shit went really bad but as a result, humanity somehow opened its eyes and saw the potential of what we could do and how we could live, and thus embraced socialism and then communism. But the other possibility is accelerationism just gets us all the quicker to a true hell, albeit non-Marxist/Hegelian, as it would be all contradiction all the time with no synthesis. Just abject despair for everyone and happy happy joy joy for the minuscule subset of the most sociopathic of sociopaths.
Edit: What comes after depends on where on that spectrum we end up. Doomerism is that it's all fucked. Do what you want, what does it matter? It's just boring old nihilism. Accepting death happens a lot of ways, countless ways. Accepting death, how or if that is done depends on culture and on the individual, I'd think. Maybe I misunderstood you though.
Dune's Sardaukar sacrificing failing recruits to anoint the remaining passing recruits level death cult? I found that scene pretty unsettling.