Yeah this is why I've repeatedly admonished the accelerationist crowd.
I can think of one time where acceleration led to an outcome that we'd consider an improvement, and that's America. I'm sure there are one or two more that I'm forgetting, but 99% of the time it leads to worse outcomes.
I don't hate the accelerationist crowd, I just believe them to be naive in just how bad and downtrodden people truly need to become. It's not enough for there to be blatant tyranny. Blatant tyranny is easy to maintain. The downtrodden need to have nothing left to lose and everything to gain. THAT is the problem with accelerationism: It needs to get to a point where it's practically over before a rebuilt can happen. And what's more, that rebuild will have ZERO control from accelerationists. Yeah, you might get something like early America. Just as likely to get any other number of results from various coups and revolutions.
Accelerationists have a very poor grasp of just how long the original colonists put up with British rule and just how much tyranny they accepted before they finally rebelled; even then it was a small percentage who actually fought.
Yeah this is why I've repeatedly admonished the accelerationist crowd.
I can think of one time where acceleration led to an outcome that we'd consider an improvement, and that's America. I'm sure there are one or two more that I'm forgetting, but 99% of the time it leads to worse outcomes.
I don't hate the accelerationist crowd, I just believe them to be naive in just how bad and downtrodden people truly need to become. It's not enough for there to be blatant tyranny. Blatant tyranny is easy to maintain. The downtrodden need to have nothing left to lose and everything to gain. THAT is the problem with accelerationism: It needs to get to a point where it's practically over before a rebuilt can happen. And what's more, that rebuild will have ZERO control from accelerationists. Yeah, you might get something like early America. Just as likely to get any other number of results from various coups and revolutions.
Accelerationists have a very poor grasp of just how long the original colonists put up with British rule and just how much tyranny they accepted before they finally rebelled; even then it was a small percentage who actually fought.