/lit/ - Literature

>>12723228

>Left accelerationism
>any different from well, accelerationism

>>10920337

The Technological Society

>>10562592

He's speaking from another time, alas, in our own timeline we face the peak of working hours across all of human history. Of course this is only valid if you account for smartphone interactions with the workplace as work, as well as overtime (paid and unpaid) and the fact that you are basically plugged 24/7 to what you're doing in most above-minimum wage jobs. But would we not consider all of this anyway? We physically are much better off than factory workers during the first industrial revolutions yet we still have our own special samsara of anxiety and existential dread looming above our solitary heads. And this is on top of having wealth inequality actually bigger than before, even though we are made to think we have more luxuries due to wealth increase all across the board (a little for mostly everyone, a huge chunk for a dozen people).

If you want to not work at all, you're going to face hardships worse than if you lived in the wilderness (being a beggar is definitely lower than being a hermit on the shit list of survival), and there is less and less proper wilderness to be lived in out there. You might as well accidentally stumble upon someone's untouched but bought-for land and properly imprisoned.

Being dedicated has little to do with not working today, because any and all dedication is valuable enough to capital that it will streamline you into the kind of work McCarthy is talking about. That's why he turned off lots of proposals related to writing himself, that would mean he accepted co-optation of his pleasure into becoming regular packaged, hard worked products. Being mediocre was his own way of keeping away from doing what other people want. Alas, being mediocre is the only option for most of us nowadays and it we will still be gnawed at from that.

>>10302938

>mfw McCarthy is accelerating

>>10287666

According to the neoreactionaries, it's the Enlightenment itself, but thought it makes sense in some ways I can't quite see that. I'd say the Industrial revolutions and the following wars created the basis for people wanting to merge into a single tribe, mainly due to economical pressure (increasing wealth concentration and productivity is easier if you have a bigger population under your wing) but also due to an overall sentiment of bitterness towards the rest of history; whereas the Renaissance looked at the past selecting parts to exalt and others to learn from, modernism and post-modernism looks at the past with hatred and disgust, wanting not to be any of that, regardless of consequences. This bitterness, greatly aided by capital and by technology, is probably a minor role of what started driving us into globalization and mindless cultural mingling. But the main stage, will always be of capital and the rampant transformation of other kinds of value into economic value.

>>9582089

Humanism is slowly losing its hold anyway. If your only ground on this or any other so called progressive matters is that we are humans and should all be lovely to each other and to other animals, you're the very reason this philosophy has died, for it is no longer a philosophy but a vector ideology with a defined direction (left).