Why Some Billionaires Are Actively Trying To Destroy The World

This is an ideology gaining in popularity amongst tech billionaires that the world is inevitably heading toward a collapse, and that instead of trying to prevent that collapse, we should rip off the band aid as fast as possible so we can get to the better world on the other side. While there’s a cold logic to it, it’s a dangerous philosophy that ignores the incalculable human suffering that such a collapse would create.

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TIMESTAMPS -
0:00 - Intro
1:31 - What is Accelerationism?
3:40 - Origins
7:12 - The Four Turnings
9:49 - Generational Theory
16:34 - Future Joe
19:30 - Sponsor - Brilliant

[GEOMETRICINK]

I think we’re just dealing with greedy psychopaths justifying their unjustifiable bad behavior.

[kafkaten]

A lot of people here in the comments saying "we just need to take care of each other and help those who need it" Totally agree! Problem is: the current system does the opposite, rewarding the most ruthless and selfish of us.

[karlpeterson]

Greed, pride, fear of not being in control, hate of people in general.

[jeffdee]

The only decent courses of action, if one believes they've predicted disaster, are the a) try to prevent or at least minimize it, and b) try to help people get through it.

Anything else is evil.

[remygallardo]

I went through a doomer phase coming out of high school in 2008 and as a result earned a bachelors degree in emergency management because I feared for what the future would be like. Now I'm actually a lot more comfortable with where the world is going, despite the intensity of the last decade and change. The most important thing I recommend to people with anxieties over the future is to look locally at what you have at your disposal. Find ways you can feed yourself and things you can do to help others within the smallest radius possible and use that as your weighted blanket. The world's massive and the internet makes it feel like it's all at your doorstep and here's every tragedy everywhere happening all at once for you to watch. What is going to matter if anything actually does go critically wrong is what is literally at your doorstep so getting familiar with that is the best way to prepare and ground yourself.

[koriko]

Accelerationism is an incredibly stupid idea. When systems break down, it's not like there's a "Game over" screen and the slate is wiped clean and everything somehow returns to a basic start over state. We just end up having to still deal with the same problems. The problems are not going away magically. The problems are intrinsic to humans and living on Earth.

[Philusteen]

Accelerationism is just going to replace countries with corporate territories.

[tylerskiss]

I think that we just have some absurdly wealthy people closing in on death suddenly aware they can’t take all of it with them and they are envious of the younger people so they want to break all the toys before they go.

My true disappointment comes from all those willing to assist them.

[CheatOnlyDeath]

Most destructive acts are performed by scared people who justify it as a lesser evil than one imagined or projected. They are using ends-justifies-the-means rationale, and they actually think it's a character strength to be able to take the "hard" actions that hurt and even kill people for some greater perceived good.

[keithfaulkner]

I read a quote somewhere I can't remember. That discribed the period between WW1 and WW2 as "not the sound of peace but the sound of reloading" iv always liked that quote.

[malectric]

Brings to mind the old saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[martinjpiana]

Joe’s line describing the tech billionaire Accelerationism “it’s like a belief of a secular rapture” is many levels of brilliance

[robsquared]

Yeah perhaps the worst thing about accelerationism is that no matter how right you think your are, it's going to hurt a lot of people and you don't know if your "side" will come out on top in the end.

[Imhexed]

Never heard anyone sum up the Manson family so well and so concisely, nice.

[ad_astra]

The thing that’s causing me the most anxiety right now is the fact accelerationists exist and some of them are extremely powerful billionaires who can use their power to destroy the world and not suffer from it.

[Ghost_Hybrid]

I agree with your final statement. Taking care of each other will carry us through to the best possible life a lot more effectively than destruction, jealousy and greed.

[Visteus]

Yeah, the "last crisis" was WW2, definitely not:
- The entirety of the Cold War was not "peaceful"
- Vietnam/Korean wars, let alone proxy wars
- Gulf War and Middle East generally for the last 30 years

The entire idea of "four turnings" just seems extremely US-centric and ignores the rest of the world, even ignores Europe except when convenient.

[resistancepublishing]

One thing I noticed about people who write manifestos is that they always start from an emotional focal point. Their biggest grievance is hating the thing that emotionally hurt them when they were young and then they built their political, social ideas of what the world is supposed to be like around that personal hurt. It all could have been prevented if they had better well balanced upbringing from loving parents. So the answer to a lot of world ills is love and lots of hugs from an early age. Got it

[mattlombardi]

I agree with you Joe, us all caring for each other and helping each other is the way forward!

[jackh]

You don't need everyone to come together to fix the world. You just need to get 1/3 of the population actively engaged