Nick Land's drugs got him there well before everyone else, but I'm talking about the right wing cranks such as Big Yud that have kept up a mask of "grey tribe" pretenses, said stupid stale memes like "politics is the mind killer," and worshipped billionaires as the more radiant energy beings they are, being of the sky while we are of the dirt.
Sure, it seemed inevitable all along, especially when billionaires started outright buying ownership stakes in "futurology" conventions. It got especially creepy when the United States Department of Defense openly peddled contractor wares in such places.
It isn't fun being the Cassandra, seeing it happening in real time, warning people, then getting laughed off about it. I've lost real life friends to this stuff, people that were superficially just open minded and quirky in college but now wear the metaphorical armband and goosestep to wherever Sam Harris or other crypto-bigoted cranks tell them to go.
Land realizes the contradictions within the system, but his brand of accelerationism isn't concerned with the "moralizing" that comes with left accelerationism. It's a large part of why he's taken up reactionary thought. It's convenient to hide his own brand of cowardice.
The biggest issue with the rationalist crowd is their maddening ability to ignore historical and sociological context. It just leads to a bunch of arm chair theorizing that ends up with a terrible version of some idea that was already fleshed out by some Enlightenment philosopher in the 18th century. This belief that you can just bootstrap your way into examining and fixing/mitigating your own cognitive biases without understanding why the fuck you think the way you do to begin with is just dumb. It almost always leads to some evo pysch bullshit because that's what you've been largely fed within certain education systems
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