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In the past few years we’ve seen in certain circles both right-wing and left-wing we’ve seen a researches of something we could call acceleration ism, which is the desire to To participate in the breakdown of society or the breakdown of structures in order that something new will Occur and so push things to their extreme so that a new a new system will occur now This appears both on the left and the right And many people have asked me what I think of this and if I think it’s a viable solution A lot of the chaotic stuff that we’ve been seen coming out of the chans out of the reddits the kind of bubbling up of crazy imagery and You know, especially some recent memes that we’ve seen we’ve the idea of acceleration ism has become more and more popular and People have asked me Symbolically what I think of it and what I think if I think it is a possible solution to the problem of Western civilization as we see it now In order to answer that question we need to remind ourselves something that I insist on Constantly which is that there is a deep analogy between the personal structure and The social structure that is there’s a strict analogy between the human being and the communities in which that human person participates and one of the problems of acceleration ism is somehow to think that those two things are separate from each other that you could somehow participate in the destruction of society that you could somehow accelerate chaotic elements of society and Somehow remain unsinged in yourself from doing that and I think that it is a very dangerous game to play Because as we want to push certain factions certain elements that we find decadent or certain elements that we find dangerous for society in order to to quicken the collapse of Of everything in the hopes that something better will be born. We are also Engaging on that road within ourselves It is very few people who can legitimately rise above the fray and act Could act in that way without themselves falling into the very things or being taken into the very things On their own fringes that they want to encourage on the fringe of society You know, I do believe that a lot of the things that we’re seeing happen today are a are a playing out of the Christian story. I’ve often said in my in my videos that Within the Christian story it is important to see that the death of Christianity is part of it The death of Christ is part of the Christian story and the death of Christianity is part of the Christian story itself the the Christian story seems to be a a process by which As Christ says all things are revealed and for all things to be revealed It means that we both the wheat and the tares grow up at the same time It means that as you uncover things you uncover both the mysteries and the scandal at the same time and those two things are inevitable as the world as the world moves towards the resolution of the Christian story and so I Think that Christ himself put it the most succinctly when he said that It in his own coming in the consequences of his own coming that scandal must happen But he also then says woe to those by whom it happens and I think that that in that statement is the deep understanding That that it is normal that what we see around us is happening this upside down world the chaos The degeneracy that we see around us. This is something which is inevitable in the cycles of history and inevitable in the big story of the Christian revelation you could call it but to play a part in bringing about The the end of Western civilization to play a pout, you know, you’ve seen some evangelicals in You know in recent times doing things in order for Christ to return to provoke the return of Christ This is an old way of acting, you know You saw this all the way in the Middle Ages where certain people acted in certain ways especially during the time of the of the Crusades in order to Restore to bring about the return of Christ An example of very strange example of that is Christopher Columbus himself who who in one of his ideas was to go out and In order when he found the the the lost when he found North America one of his goals that is not publicly known very well was actually to find the Garden of Eden and You know and finding the Garden of Eden was was in his idea was to to bring about You know the end of times to bring about the return of Christ you see several people have that approach and I think that it is a The very idea that we would act in a way to provoke, you know A kind of chaos or to provoke a breakdown so that you know that the story will resolve itself I think it is very dangerous for society and it is very dangerous for ourselves What we need to do is to do what Christ told us to do is to become just To become like Christ to to emphasize The virtues and to become little lights and those little lights You know no matter how dark it gets those little sparks those little lights will have enough We need to trust that they will have enough light to carry us through the flood to carry us through the chaos and to be to be little lights in the Into the coming darkness and and this not only for Society as a whole but for yourself for your own spiritual development for your family for those around you if you let yourself Embrace the cynicism that it requires to become an accelerationist you will find that it will It will have negative consequences on yourself on your family and those around you and It is no matter what we think it is embracing a kind of Nihilism a con even if it is not even if you do believe that by doing so you will bring about some new order some new thing in the actions that you pose it is an embracing of nihilism and And I don’t think that most of us can say above that fray You