953 sats \ 0 replies \ @clr 18 Nov 2023 freebie \ on: Accelerationism, Decelerationism, and Bitcoin bitcoin
I think it's not about tech, but about whether particular technologies centralize power or distribute it.
- e/acc promote tech that gives power to Silicon Valley types, the State and VC bros/bankers at the expense of everyone else. Usually they are dismissive of or hostile towards technologies that empower the individual like Bitcoin and Nostr (technologies that they cannot capture).
- Decelerationists maybe feel like everything is happening faster than they can comprehend and want a break. They forget that we need tech to fight against entropy; for the individual and species survival.
- Effective altruism is the ploy that the e/acc crowd uses as a justification to accumulate more power. Who would dare oppose them if they have a 'scientific' method that maximizes the 'common good' (in theory, of course; individual freedom be damned).