There's a sizable minority of the younger generation with a sense that the world as is offers them no purpose or worthwhile future, and no control over the institutions that have guided it to this point.
Increasingly large numbers of them seem determined to topple the Apple cart, if only for the opportunity to experience anything else.
Certainly, it's self-serving. But with enough momentum, it may end up working.
In compliment to your point, I think it's important to remember that the "toppling of the cart", doesn't aim, as an express purpose, to put the cart where you want it to be, but rather to destroy the cart. The phenomenon, I argue, is more base than revolution, and it doesn't have a focus on the future (or even a sense of it). It's exclusively about the now. So it's a mistake to evoke revolutions as examples. I called it constructive destruction in my original commnent, but a more accurate expression would be ultimately-maybe-inadvertently-constructive destruction.
I did notice a spike in comments on some fora along the lines of 'let it fall apart', where it refers to the current cart I suppose. There is a really strong dissatisfaction with current situation and it has to be addressed or at least channelled.
I was referring to their attempt to tip the apple cart. Not create a new world. Nowhere in this thread has anybody come close to proposing this as a net good, or even really what the world would look like after such an acceleration. My comment was strictly observational in nature.
I'll grant that I could have done better in clarifying that.
However, even in the event that I was attempting to advocate on behalf of an accelerationist mindset, there was no need for you to respond combatively, or condescendingly cut off some weak (albeit common) argument that you've wargamed out in your head.
Believe it or not, not everybody's as stupid or predictable as you seem to think they are, and you should ask someone for details before you decide what they think for them.
The same is true about the status quo. People who don't find that the prevailing system works for them have little motivation to uphold it, although different groups may oppose the status quo for very different reasons.
Like a villain in a movie, right? Where you're setup to despise him, but also sympathize with him just a bit. I think that people who are genuinely destructive might have rationalizations about why they're doing what they're doing, but the rationalization is just a distraction. Ultimately they don't really know, because it's bigger than them.
