Should We All Now Be Accelerationists?

April 25, 2023 – 4:23 pm
This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Accelerationism

In case you haven’t noticed, America, and the West more generally, are falling to pieces. How so? Here’s a brief, but far from exhaustive, list: — Public confidence in the government and media are at all-time lows; — The printing of money in order to support government spending at an astronomical rate has triggered dangerous […]

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P.S.

April 27, 2023 – 6:22 pm
This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Accelerationism

My old friend Bill Vallicella, the Maverick Philosopher, has put up an item about my “accelerationism” post, and some discussion has ensued in the comment-thread. You can read it here.

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Should The Culture War Take A Back Seat?

May 3, 2023 – 7:33 pm
This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series Accelerationism

On April 27th, Josiah Lippincott published an essay at American Greatness arguing that we’ve lost the culture war, and that the way forward is for the Right to focus squarely on the issues that got Donald Trump elected in 2016. Lippincott’s article, which you can read here, stakes out the argument as follows: Immigration, trade, […]

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More On Acceleration

May 5, 2023 – 4:43 pm
This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Accelerationism

Over at Bill Vallicella’s place, commenter “mharko” (who also has things to say over here from time to time), left such a fine comment on Bill’s accelerationism post that I am going to repost it here: I had a thought mulling these things over while pulling weeds and cultivating soil that I wanted to risk […]

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Contra Accelerationism

May 8, 2023 – 1:04 pm
This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Accelerationism

Our commenter mharko has given us a link to a brief video making an argument, from a Christian perspective, against accelerationism. The presenter, Jonathan Pageau, calls it “dancing with death”. Here it is: There is an interesting “as above, so below” theme running through the argument. The idea is twofold: first, that there is an […]

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No Can Do

May 11, 2023 – 6:00 pm
This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Accelerationism

Over the past week or two I’ve been kicking around the idea of “accelerationism” — that the best way forward for this rotting society is to give its most destructive factions free rein, so as to make the disease progress so rapidly, and to such extremes, that it either provokes, at last, an “immune response” […]

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Auron MacIntyre On Nick Land On Acceleration

March 26, 2024 – 4:40 pm
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Accelerationism

What we used to call the “reactosphere” has added some fine younger contributors over the last few years. One of the best is Auron Macintyre, who does podcasts (both on his own and with guests), YouTube videos, and a column at Substack (you can also follow him on X). I give him my highest recommendation: […]

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