Accelerationist vs reactionary? Primitivist vs futurist? These are banal dualities that any halfway sophisticated leftist analysis would instantly dispatch.
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Explain to me how.
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I’d suggest by not conflating tech development with human development and then applying it to history as a tale of moral progress. You might then find space for a politics with more complex registers than either/or, +/-, progress/regress etc.
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I don’t think I did that in the article. I don’t believe in progress, nor do I believe that tech is synonymous with “progress”—though we cannot easily detach ourselves from it. Not believing in progress is a rightist position.
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Some interesting analysis here, but reality doesn't fall so neatly into this leftist/rightist binary. Accepting the cyclical nature of life and death does not make one rightist – nor does a lack of belief in infinite growth and consumption. Nor does being a poet!
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The left is anti-nature. It’s predicated on the idea that the cycle of nature can be transcended, usually through technology (Marx adored the Prometheus myth). This includes transcending death itself (see transhumanism and Soviet views on immortality).
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To me, statements like "the left is anti-nature" or "not believing in progress is rightist" suggest a degree of dogmatism and historical/theoretical naivety that put an end to worthwhile exchange.
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1/2 I'm afraid I agree. Your imperiousness overshadows whatever might be interesting in your enquiry: who'd of thought a commitment to poetry was a defining element of rightist thought! Imagine trying to explain that to Pablo Neruda!!
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Neruda didn’t write poetry. He was an ideologue, not an artist. People say they like Neruda to advertise that they are politically correct in the same way they say they like Maya Angelou to “prove” they’re not racist. Neruda worshipped the monster Stalin. Word poison.
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Enough for me. This doesn't lead anywhere. Go well.
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Okay, it was interesting. Take care.
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