/lit/ - Literature

try to write -- while i'm writing all the other information in my head is atrophying --> try to read -- while i'm trying to understand the work, many hours are passing by and i've only read 50 pages from one of the 250 books im in the middle of reading all which is a drop in the bucket of my reading list before i can even begin to feel like i've read a drop in the bucket --> in this time i haven't applied to any jobs --> in this time i haven't hung out with any friends that i don't have, or exercised, or made real food, haven't even begun to have a life ---> 100 tabs of information have piled up that need to be sorted, phrases, expressions, words i dont know, forgotten as soon as they're filed, need to be glossed over again --> there will never be time to look back and sort anything, it's all clutter, its 11pm now time to take benadryl otherwise theres no way i will ever sleep --> stories need characters, characters need long sustained effort, each of them, they need to be three dimensional, how do i make a character other than myself --> i haven't done anything today and i need a job --> overqualified nobody will hire me but for what im qualified to do --> im qualified to do nothing, i need experience to get experience --> information in my brain that i paid good money for atrophying as i type this --> many textbooks to study, questions that will be asked in interviews, but i didn't do any of that today --> my mind only does one thing at once --> i wish i were dead --> and yet life is as easy as it gets for me right now

As much as accelerationism is very interesting and has come up with both a unique philosophical pedigree and some novel insights about technocapital, it still is just a thought experiment at heart. We can't say it's happening for sure until after it's happened, we can't influence it while it is happening and of course we can't direct where it will go in the future. It's almost like the simulation hypothesis at that point - sure it might be statistically more likely than not to be the case and it would be interesting to find out, but we have absolutely no way of proving it's real and we can do nothing if it is real. The thing about the Wild Ride is that it is just that - a ride, i.e. we have no control over it. You don't choose where your rollercoaster goes, nor can you choose whether or not to get on in the case of accelerationism. You just better hope that you like rollercoasters and that they don't make you vomit.

To me this shows the flaw of accelerationism: that there is no praxis. It is socio-political escapism.

Oh, Deleuze showed that Mayan death symbolism uses the same numerological formula as microfluidic PCR complexes? Wonderful... how does that sort out the fact that wages in my country haven't kept up with inflation for a decade?

Hmm, Land showed that in his re-readings of Marx the proletariat is an allegory of 5th dimensional bitcoin acquisition under a city-state model? Again, fascinating... but how does that stop the unending mass immigration into my nation by people antithetical to my own?