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>I think it's highly unlikely that this system can be dismantled due to the fact that technology itself is what enables our current social hierarchy.

>Technology has become inseparable from corporate despotism.

The true challenge for XF, I think,starts with being able to imagine a world that has a more equal share in this technology, both its creation and it's effects. It builds off of an understanding of what the rapid spread of technology has done to our societies (for good and for bad) and what we want it to do for our societies as time goes on, as well as how our societies might have to adapt to accommodate those changes that new technology brings. As you point out, what gives contemporary corporate tech it's menacing and despotic bent is that it is wielded at the highest levels of society as a cudgel for the profit and power of very few without genuine concern for its effects on humanity, the planet, civilization, etc. Anyone seriously pursuing XF has to recognize this fact and work essentially in the opposite direction - wielding tech and an adaptable view of the human/culture/society as a locus for personal and societal liberation, freeing up human societies from old ways of thinking, working towards the 'profit' of global civilization as a whole and not merely for corporate/state entities (which is obviously quite difficult given the nature of the game being played here) but that is the second step that XF would likely ask you to take.

One of the hardest steps in this project (XF or accelerationism) is likely to be the first one - imagining that a different future, a different social system, a different human being, is even a possibility. I think this is the goal of the XF books - not to give one a road-map for societal liberation through technology/ideology, but to merely ask people to think about such projects as being within the realm of the possible.