Chaos Ideology of Globalists: Accelerationism & Dark Enlightenment. Tony Gosling Newstalk ZB

Accelerationsm, how a fringe philosophy predicted the world we live in by Andy Beckett (2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in

Accelerating Toward Dark Enlightenment by Iain Davis (2022)
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/accelerating-toward-dark-enlightenment

Not many people have heard of "accelerationism"; I certainly hadn't. The term is attested in economics from the mid-1970s, and in the sense of hastening the onset of technosociety from the early 2010s, as a new coining attributed to Benjamin Noys, an English professor of Critical Theory. It is in that latter usage, just a decade old, that I use the term in this article. So it comes as a bit of shock to discover that accelerationism is already seemingly everywhere.

Accelerationism has apparently been adopted by many of the most powerful people and institutions on the planet. It is widespread and influential.

When the World Economic Forum signed its Strategic Partnership with the United Nations, it claimed that the purpose was "to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". In his 2021 letter to shareholders, the CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, referred to acceleration seven times: for example, "the pandemic has also accelerated deeper trends", or "the reallocation of capital accelerated even faster than I anticipated", and "momentum continues to build, and in 2021 it will accelerate—with dramatic implications for the global economy". Recently, the UK Government launched its Innovation Accelerator, and, in his recent statement on the alleged British economy growth plan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (UK Finance Minister), Kwasi Kwarteng, said:

[W]e are publishing a list of infrastructure projects that will be prioritised for acceleration[.] [. . .] I can announce that we will accelerate reforms[.] [. . .] We will liberalise planning rules in specified agreed sites, releasing land and accelerating development [. . .] for ten years, there will be accelerated tax reliefs for structures and buildings.

During the pseudopandemic, the World Health Organisation established its Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator. The UK Ministry of Defence established its Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) in 2016 as a public-private partnership for the "exploitable innovation" of defence technology.

Speaking in 2020, Joe Davis, Chief Economist for the global investment giant Vanguard, wrote an article, pre-empting Fink's sentiments, discussing how "the pandemic has accelerated some trends already in place". In a section he entitled The Future Accelerated, he wrote:

[T]he pandemic functioned as a call option on employers’ incrementalism. No longer could work-from-home arrangements serve as controlled experiments in productivity; they became indispensable. Ready or not, employers for the most part have successfully enabled secure and efficient work from home and redefined team dynamics. [. . .]
COVID-19 has also accelerated the challenges facing restaurants and brick-and-mortar retailers. E-retail and food delivery, already growing in popularity before the pandemic, have become essential to consumers worried about face-to-face interaction.

Davis' statement reveals a bit more about this notion of accelerating. Most of us think of it as the present participle of the verb "accelerate"; simply an adjective to describe motion and little more. But Fink and Davis appear to be among those who ascribe a different meaning to the notion. "Accelerating" to them also implies disruption; a catalyst for change accomplished in leaps and bounds rather than by steady progress.

When we then discover that "accelerationism" is a distinct socio-political philosophy, it is reasonable to ask whether all of these "accelerators" are, in fact, based upon an ideology. Is there more to this concept of "acceleration" than meets the eye? Does use of the term by people like Schwab, Fink, Davis and Kwarteng mean more than just "quicken"?


The Accelerationist Left

In his useful exploration of accelerationism, the Guardian's Andy Beckett outlined the core beliefs of its exponents, the accelerationists:

Accelerationists argue that technology, particularly computer technology, and capitalism, particularly the most aggressive, global variety, should be massively sped up and intensified [. . .].
Accelerationists favour automation. They favour the further merging of the digital and the human. They often favour the deregulation of business, and drastically scaled-back government. They believe that people should stop deluding themselves that economic and technological progress can be controlled. They often believe that social and political upheaval has a value in itself.

He also provided his view of what accelerationism is not:

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