You're listening to the third and final part of unexplained Season 6, Episode 28, The

Noose Fear.

Many will no doubt be horrified at the thought of accelerationism, the idea that if we are

indeed as a species caught up in an inescapable, capitalistic vortex of diminishing cultural

returns rather than trying to resist it we should instead be speeding it up.

Why not as the accelerationist might argue increase the rate of capitalist growth and technological

development to destroy everything of the old world in the hope that something better will

come out of it.

But even now we may feel that changes are happening too quickly as it is, when everything from the

traditional role of the media to the application of law and order, the traditional purposes of

politics and politicians and even the ways in which we receive and prioritize information

seems to be up for grabs these days.

Although it's important to remember that none of these so-called traditions are old

in the grand scheme of things and they've always been up for grabs, their destabilization

from what we've been used to to something a little more uncertain is for some of us nonetheless

deeply unsettling.

It may then be even more alarming to discover that the language of the internet itself might

be the very thing that is preventing us from imagining a way out of our current predicaments.

In his 2015 book, You Are Not A Gadget, Thearist and Tech Pioneer, Jaron Lanier, details the

paradox of web 2.0 platforms, those such as TikTok, YouTube and Facebook which facilitate

user generated content.

On the one hand, these various apps do make it easier to share our expressions and ideas,

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