Philosophy bear nails it. As Katherine Dee has also said, the culture war will be phased out and the new central issue will be degrowth vs accelerationism. It will also not neatly divide into left and right. Many leftists are concerned with AI but Steve Bannon has also sounded the alarm against Big Tech ( Ross Barkan has an excellent piece on Bannon and how he should be emulated). There are left and right accelerationists who are excited about a world without work. Philosophy bear , via Stefan Kelly , convinced me that this is a world where we lose our power against the government and the oligarchy — what little power we have left.

It is understandable why degrowth is so unattractive. For years the degrowth movement has been characterized as being composed of filthy childish hippies, much like the environmental movement has been ( Sean Monahan recently did this in an admittedly entertaining way). Perhaps it is better to lean into this. For years Republicans shied away from being called racists and Nazis until Trump made it his brand. So fuck what the squares say: let your freak flag fly brothers and sisters.