And yet they never write about what can actually save humanity…love. (I realize that’s not an actual game plan or manifesto but, maybe it is? It is for me.)
My head is spinning. I am with you in the need to slow down. It does seem true that there is a group trying to race us to the edge. When I see what is happening in LA it is all the understanding protestors have had and have during this administration that the National Guard or Military in some form would be turned against us. It was just a matter of when. In California because trump is out of control this is a fire which can spread quickly across the country. Thank you Greg. tremendous article. I've read and bookmarked many pieces you highlighted particularly the long read..... This last week I read Alexanra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Society",(which is excellent) It made me pick up again Vasily Grossmans, "Stalingrad". I read it about 18 months ago but with everything else I have read inbetween, including his "Life and Fate" "Stalingrad" is an amazing read for an 800+ page book at this moment in time.
Fascinating however, in my opinion, if the race you speak of was not imbued with wealth and power as a byproduct there would less interest in acceleration. For me watching the birth of the internet/computers from its inception it is glaringly clear that all the good is over shadowed by the industry of misinformation, Ransomware, data driven algorithms and various actors hiding in anonymity.
It seems strikingly similar to the Cathars and the crusades starting in 1209. As the profit of the land and minds of people needed more control there became a strange partnership. Barons and Pope Innocent (ironic), decided together they could purge the nonbelievers while taking their land. What a team and what a recipe for accelerated success. Bringing both profits and power at the expense of the peaceful to the few. I’m not sold.
It seems so. It makes me wonder if it would be slowed by a more transparency in the internet. It seems that deepfake requires that anonymity could never be resolved.
Yes, I think more transparency would help. In the real world of easily created corporate fronts...and fronts on fronts...there's plenty of places to hide your intent, particularly the malicious variety. However, those same parties always seemed to used the current means, so it is a matching to the times.
Trump, though, can no longer hide. He is still the person the Washington Post found that lied over 37,000 times in his first presidency: a full 70% of everything he said was a lie. As Trump unfolds the Project 2025 manifesto, the NAZI projection of his presidency, the MAGA probably doesn't think of themselves as Nazis...but they are...whether in Congress, the Executive or in middle America. There's no need to be kind about this. None whatsoever.
I remember the early legislation to keep the internet free. Having worked in the industry I suggested there should be a way to hold people accountable. I wish we could go back and make that change.
The Papal Legate, as he exterminated every last Cathar, was asked how he could distinguish the heretics from the true believers. He said, in effect, "Kill them all and let God sort them out."
Also, Cathars tended to jump on the fire instead of abandoning their beliefs when threatened and telling the truth when questioned. Very interesting Christian group and unthreatening by nature. But to provide an alternate Christian view than the pope was heresy. Which deepfakes have I missed?
Brilliant essay shared on LinkedIn. The AI solution for Big Tech, driven by economic advantages for the companies and their shareholders, and the super-charged aggression and non-regulated AI approach, came together like a perfect storm with Trump’s brand of ruthlessness. Tech financed and hopped onto the train, caring not that people are thrown under the bus, all to grab what they could without regard to disruption and other disastrous consequences. It will be a train wreck with infighting and competition for superiority, while kicking our populace. Our country’s entire population must meet aggression with a higher level of forcefulness to ensure that the wreck is averted. So now, while we are struggling to find a brick wall for Trump, we also have to pay attention to what is going on with AI deregulation. There is a new meaning of “citizenship” in this country―we must look up and focus on how we can get some shred of control on what others are doing to control us―that or quiet acceptance.
Thanks, Beverly. I should add that AI is a tool, and like any tool, is neither inherently positive or negative. A lot of what it does or can do is lifesaving and miraculous. But when it goes to the Dark Side, it gets Darth Vader on us real quick.
AI aggression is two fold: The "aggression" in development of learning models and the potential for human developers to embed biases or harmful objectives into AI systems, either intentionally or unintentionally. And the potential for autonomous "aggression" in AI decisions that Hinton is most worried about--the fear that advanced AI could make decisions that are harmful, unethical, or even pose existential risks, particularly if they are not properly aligned with human values or if they become uncontrollable. That is why without regulations, and allowing 10 years of work with no guardrails would be reckless. Trump has no concept of what all this is about and makes decisions without competence that impacts entire populations. And here we sit.
Absolutely brilliant! My mind is racing, your words flooded it with many diverse thoughts. I always believed the best authors stimulate the reader to think and challenge themselves, you certainly excel at this.
Expressions from my business career like "ready, fire, aim', "disruptors and disruption", "pivot" and "kaizen" among others came to mind. Each is/was a business "philosophy", essentially a means to success in business. Always underlying this was the profit motive, essentially greed. Skype no more, Zoom giving ground to a huge corporate alternative, MSTeams. In today's world the key is control the eyeball, control the mind which makes the finger generate the money.
What is scary is that accelerationists, generally already uber rich persons seem, like a Bond villian to have world domination as their goal, technology the weapon of choice. It is an interesting weapon, they can hide in the shadows, never expose themselves, even have deniability as a defense when things go wrong. A weapon of the coward. They wish a planet in their image, however other than white, the rest escapes me. Why does fElon want to go to Mars, to create a living space in his image? Musk rival, Thiel, is his vehicle, Planitir his way to world domination?
I equate accelerationist with terrorist. I define terrorist as one imposing their worldview on everyone else. Whilst the uber rich may have world domination as their goal I don't believe they are a cabal, that is they plot and plan as a group. I believe they are only interested "me" even to the point of making other uber rich subjects of their "philosophy". Bezos versus Musk, so to speak.
BTW, fElon may have stolen a big edge over his rivals. Getting the orange imbecile elected, creating DOGE gave him access to the essential ingredient in technology warfare, access to the world's biggest trove of ammunition, the US government's data in databases. The last line of defense, the court system is slowly yielding access, Social Security most recently. This, I believe was fElon's only objective, he doesn't give a damn, right versus left, conservative versus woke. To him ideology is a gross waste of time.
To end, a literary analogy, if one can call Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone a literary reference. One episode, "The Brain Center at Whipple's" may be a very frightening reminder of where we are headed, both to the everyday Joe and the accelerationist. My teaser for the day, who gets to swing the watch chain?
For me Kaizen, slow improvements all the time. BTW way I really wanted to find a way to incorporate "the enemy of my enemy is my enemy" into this. We enjoyed Friday's The Five 8.
Thanks, Old Man, for sharing all of this, and for watching the show.
As for the uber-rich tech assholes, and others of their ilk, I think the philosophies and business theories and all of that is just them fumbling for some elegant intellectual excuse to justify their psychopathy. The "Mountainhead" movie, while not a particularly fun watch, explores this quite well. They all quote Kant while nonchalantly wreaking havoc on the entire world, in their remote redoubt of absolute luxury.
Technology doesn’t solve human problems. Technology creates the potential for solving human problems. None of these manifestos deals with the human greed for power that creates societies where those in power don’t want to solve human problems except as it pertains to themselves. We’re witnessing how greed can create a level of cruelty that makes the process of trying to solve human problems totally moot in the immediate future. I value technology, but my optimism lies in the belief that Love always wins over Fear in the long run.
Thanks, Sue. Every time someone says "All gas no brakes," I'm like, "Dude, remember who used that and what happened to them?" LOL. (I liked Saleh and I think he got a bad rap.)
There is a fundamental law of innovation the accelerationists fail to take into account: There are always unintended consequences. Always.
Example: Replacing sometimes problematic and more expensive glass with plastic. Good stuff! But now we discover nanoplastic particles in every sample of blood and tissue we care to look at.
Long-term health effects? Unknown. But will endocrine system disease and cancer, say, have been worth the convenience of those gazillions of plastic water and pop bottles?
Oh, wait, we’ll have high-tech treatments for those illnesses…
Excellent point, Joe. It's like there's a balance, and nature balances out everything always. Just like energy sources all have some negative consequence.
I'm not sure, and you're right to point it out. I wasn't positive when I wrote it which was which, but I decided the Titanic had to be the thing accelerating. I added the Carpathia part to show that the iceberg is human FREEDOM and not humans. But it's not the most elegant analog.
Wow, great essay, Greg! Very fascinating. Asks the right questions, and shows how the present is just a reiteration of the past. (But in the past we didn't have nuclear weapons, AI, and global warming.) I don't know if all that you write about can work out for the good, but I'm skeptical. Rushing ahead full throttle without reflecting on the potential consequences is usually bad on the personal level, and only amplified on the societal level. If accelerationism is a particularly American movement, maybe Europe or Asia will save the rest of the planet, but it seems China is also all-in on acceleration. So maybe our species is doomed. From one Christian POV, these could be the end times. From a completely secular POV, the rise and fall of civilizations is almost a law (and we're headed for the fall part of the cycle; whether the fall is so absolute that there can be no rise remains to be seen).
Finally, thanks for having spellcheck built into these comments; it saved me from several errors. :)
The funny part about the spellcheck is that I didn't even notice the word was spelled wrong until Substack, in which Andreessen is a big investor, flagged it lol.
Interesting—I hadn’t heard of this. I think, btw, that the dog with the legs is a dachshund.
I’m not going to be around to experience the fullness of AI, even if it accelerates madly. On the subject of Reuse, recycle, reduce., however we are already there without any chips involved. Not just the rote and robotic lies of this administration. For my birthday I went to see Sinners—a great movie. But we got there early and had to endure almost an hour of previews. And I realized that not ONE of the upcoming shows was an original anything. All spinoffs or retreads or sequels. As they dragged on, I kept waiting for something original. Luckily, the main attraction was original and delightful, even if the bad guys were Irish and into my favorite songs. But it looks like the last original thing to visit that multiplex for some time.
I suspect that AI could come up with something less formulaic than those upcoming flicks
Yep, our rap, country etc. but creativity, for better or worse, is there. Maybe Fox’s “entertainment news” qualifies. I’m sure that chump taking over the Kennedy Center will produce some interesting wrestling.
Thanks, Susan. "Poodle" is such a funny word, though...and the name of the club at which Kash Patel hangs out in Vegas.
They keep showing adds for the new Superman movie, and it's like: why? It doesn't even look good, it looks like CGI crap. What's the point? I haven't seen SINNERS yet but it's on our list.
Good Lord! A brain warp if there ever was one. When the writings of Ted Kaczynski make more sense than our current “genuses,” heaven help us. I will venture a guess that chump has not a clue that he is a tool for the “enshitification folks, but he would be on board. Nor do MAGAts, nor the “conservatives” that are all gung ho for the ways to distress democrats. The fringe is married to the political right and people are just waking up. Like me. Not sure I get it yet. But my brain cells are getting a workout like never before. Or maybe we all are sheep. Hopefully, what comes from the meshing of brains, stupidity, inhumanity, fearful ignorance, and of course, God delusions, will be trampled down by a movement that is still ignorant of so much about our internal enemy
TCinLA describes the “enshitification” of chump’s maladministration. I thought that was a word coined by TC. Anyway, it certainly fits. Reagan’s favorite warning. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help,” is now a threat like none we have faced before. Thank you, I think…
Yeah, it really does hurt the brain, not least because so much of it is perfectly logical and positive. Kaczynski's "tech is the root of all evil" premise is interesting and defensible, but he goes into this weird anti-"leftist" diatribe that occupies a third of the manifesto, and is nothing more than a fancy way of shitting on people who care about other people...although even there I know what he's trying to say.
And yet they never write about what can actually save humanity…love. (I realize that’s not an actual game plan or manifesto but, maybe it is? It is for me.)
💯
I'm going to be on the lookout for that as I read through these various manifestos...
My head is spinning. I am with you in the need to slow down. It does seem true that there is a group trying to race us to the edge. When I see what is happening in LA it is all the understanding protestors have had and have during this administration that the National Guard or Military in some form would be turned against us. It was just a matter of when. In California because trump is out of control this is a fire which can spread quickly across the country. Thank you Greg. tremendous article. I've read and bookmarked many pieces you highlighted particularly the long read..... This last week I read Alexanra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Society",(which is excellent) It made me pick up again Vasily Grossmans, "Stalingrad". I read it about 18 months ago but with everything else I have read inbetween, including his "Life and Fate" "Stalingrad" is an amazing read for an 800+ page book at this moment in time.
Thanks, Sara, and thanks for the recommendations. The LA stuff...we knew it was coming but it's still shocking to witness.
this is part of two paragraphs that stood out to me last night, from Stalingrad
https://substack.com/@sarafrischer/note/c-124077433?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=fa5ey
Fascinating however, in my opinion, if the race you speak of was not imbued with wealth and power as a byproduct there would less interest in acceleration. For me watching the birth of the internet/computers from its inception it is glaringly clear that all the good is over shadowed by the industry of misinformation, Ransomware, data driven algorithms and various actors hiding in anonymity.
It seems strikingly similar to the Cathars and the crusades starting in 1209. As the profit of the land and minds of people needed more control there became a strange partnership. Barons and Pope Innocent (ironic), decided together they could purge the nonbelievers while taking their land. What a team and what a recipe for accelerated success. Bringing both profits and power at the expense of the peaceful to the few. I’m not sold.
So, you're saying the predators developed at the speed of innovation.
I bet they're faster
Well put, Billy.
It seems so. It makes me wonder if it would be slowed by a more transparency in the internet. It seems that deepfake requires that anonymity could never be resolved.
Yes, I think more transparency would help. In the real world of easily created corporate fronts...and fronts on fronts...there's plenty of places to hide your intent, particularly the malicious variety. However, those same parties always seemed to used the current means, so it is a matching to the times.
Trump, though, can no longer hide. He is still the person the Washington Post found that lied over 37,000 times in his first presidency: a full 70% of everything he said was a lie. As Trump unfolds the Project 2025 manifesto, the NAZI projection of his presidency, the MAGA probably doesn't think of themselves as Nazis...but they are...whether in Congress, the Executive or in middle America. There's no need to be kind about this. None whatsoever.
I remember the early legislation to keep the internet free. Having worked in the industry I suggested there should be a way to hold people accountable. I wish we could go back and make that change.
Don't forget deepfakes, Randall.
The Papal Legate, as he exterminated every last Cathar, was asked how he could distinguish the heretics from the true believers. He said, in effect, "Kill them all and let God sort them out."
Also, Cathars tended to jump on the fire instead of abandoning their beliefs when threatened and telling the truth when questioned. Very interesting Christian group and unthreatening by nature. But to provide an alternate Christian view than the pope was heresy. Which deepfakes have I missed?
Brilliant essay shared on LinkedIn. The AI solution for Big Tech, driven by economic advantages for the companies and their shareholders, and the super-charged aggression and non-regulated AI approach, came together like a perfect storm with Trump’s brand of ruthlessness. Tech financed and hopped onto the train, caring not that people are thrown under the bus, all to grab what they could without regard to disruption and other disastrous consequences. It will be a train wreck with infighting and competition for superiority, while kicking our populace. Our country’s entire population must meet aggression with a higher level of forcefulness to ensure that the wreck is averted. So now, while we are struggling to find a brick wall for Trump, we also have to pay attention to what is going on with AI deregulation. There is a new meaning of “citizenship” in this country―we must look up and focus on how we can get some shred of control on what others are doing to control us―that or quiet acceptance.
Thanks, Beverly. I should add that AI is a tool, and like any tool, is neither inherently positive or negative. A lot of what it does or can do is lifesaving and miraculous. But when it goes to the Dark Side, it gets Darth Vader on us real quick.
AI aggression is two fold: The "aggression" in development of learning models and the potential for human developers to embed biases or harmful objectives into AI systems, either intentionally or unintentionally. And the potential for autonomous "aggression" in AI decisions that Hinton is most worried about--the fear that advanced AI could make decisions that are harmful, unethical, or even pose existential risks, particularly if they are not properly aligned with human values or if they become uncontrollable. That is why without regulations, and allowing 10 years of work with no guardrails would be reckless. Trump has no concept of what all this is about and makes decisions without competence that impacts entire populations. And here we sit.
Absolutely brilliant! My mind is racing, your words flooded it with many diverse thoughts. I always believed the best authors stimulate the reader to think and challenge themselves, you certainly excel at this.
Expressions from my business career like "ready, fire, aim', "disruptors and disruption", "pivot" and "kaizen" among others came to mind. Each is/was a business "philosophy", essentially a means to success in business. Always underlying this was the profit motive, essentially greed. Skype no more, Zoom giving ground to a huge corporate alternative, MSTeams. In today's world the key is control the eyeball, control the mind which makes the finger generate the money.
What is scary is that accelerationists, generally already uber rich persons seem, like a Bond villian to have world domination as their goal, technology the weapon of choice. It is an interesting weapon, they can hide in the shadows, never expose themselves, even have deniability as a defense when things go wrong. A weapon of the coward. They wish a planet in their image, however other than white, the rest escapes me. Why does fElon want to go to Mars, to create a living space in his image? Musk rival, Thiel, is his vehicle, Planitir his way to world domination?
I equate accelerationist with terrorist. I define terrorist as one imposing their worldview on everyone else. Whilst the uber rich may have world domination as their goal I don't believe they are a cabal, that is they plot and plan as a group. I believe they are only interested "me" even to the point of making other uber rich subjects of their "philosophy". Bezos versus Musk, so to speak.
BTW, fElon may have stolen a big edge over his rivals. Getting the orange imbecile elected, creating DOGE gave him access to the essential ingredient in technology warfare, access to the world's biggest trove of ammunition, the US government's data in databases. The last line of defense, the court system is slowly yielding access, Social Security most recently. This, I believe was fElon's only objective, he doesn't give a damn, right versus left, conservative versus woke. To him ideology is a gross waste of time.
To end, a literary analogy, if one can call Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone a literary reference. One episode, "The Brain Center at Whipple's" may be a very frightening reminder of where we are headed, both to the everyday Joe and the accelerationist. My teaser for the day, who gets to swing the watch chain?
For me Kaizen, slow improvements all the time. BTW way I really wanted to find a way to incorporate "the enemy of my enemy is my enemy" into this. We enjoyed Friday's The Five 8.
Thanks, Old Man, for sharing all of this, and for watching the show.
As for the uber-rich tech assholes, and others of their ilk, I think the philosophies and business theories and all of that is just them fumbling for some elegant intellectual excuse to justify their psychopathy. The "Mountainhead" movie, while not a particularly fun watch, explores this quite well. They all quote Kant while nonchalantly wreaking havoc on the entire world, in their remote redoubt of absolute luxury.
Dead Star: a few billion years?MAYBE!
Sustainability is not forever but about slowing down.
Acceleration is chaotic spastic destruction.
Witness: Donald Trump!
AND
You are in a Trump hotel bar and in walks Adam Smith and Karl Marx.
And you say?
Smith and Marx both get a bum rap.
Marx is considered the original accelerationist, BTW...
Technology doesn’t solve human problems. Technology creates the potential for solving human problems. None of these manifestos deals with the human greed for power that creates societies where those in power don’t want to solve human problems except as it pertains to themselves. We’re witnessing how greed can create a level of cruelty that makes the process of trying to solve human problems totally moot in the immediate future. I value technology, but my optimism lies in the belief that Love always wins over Fear in the long run.
I admire your Optimism but I suspect Fear has ruled since Eve bit into the fruit.
The gods continue their taste for murder.
OPPIE
I agree with your first sentence. Obviously our worldviews differ somewhat and that’s perfectly OK with me.
For tomight I havent decide if for a third time whether to watch Oppenheimer or Dune.
We watched TENET. Again.
Good idea.
Maybe to nite a re watch
Good idea. Maybe I'll rewatch the dvd tonite.
Beautifully put, Earl, and absolutely true.
Manifestos are documents of failure, right? Do any of them actually pan out?
Grim as hell. But I so appreciate your ending with so funny a joke as the Jets.
Thanks, Sue. Every time someone says "All gas no brakes," I'm like, "Dude, remember who used that and what happened to them?" LOL. (I liked Saleh and I think he got a bad rap.)
There is a fundamental law of innovation the accelerationists fail to take into account: There are always unintended consequences. Always.
Example: Replacing sometimes problematic and more expensive glass with plastic. Good stuff! But now we discover nanoplastic particles in every sample of blood and tissue we care to look at.
Long-term health effects? Unknown. But will endocrine system disease and cancer, say, have been worth the convenience of those gazillions of plastic water and pop bottles?
Oh, wait, we’ll have high-tech treatments for those illnesses…
Excellent point, Joe. It's like there's a balance, and nature balances out everything always. Just like energy sources all have some negative consequence.
Greg, is that iceberg-and-Titanic metaphor backwards?
I'm not sure, and you're right to point it out. I wasn't positive when I wrote it which was which, but I decided the Titanic had to be the thing accelerating. I added the Carpathia part to show that the iceberg is human FREEDOM and not humans. But it's not the most elegant analog.
I found the article illuminating…but that running dog is the spitting image of my DACHSHUND!
And I do love to watch dachshunds run.
Thanks for subscribing, Jan. You're right, of course, it is a dachshund. Poor little guy struggling to catch up. "Poodle" sounds funnier, though. ; )
Wow, great essay, Greg! Very fascinating. Asks the right questions, and shows how the present is just a reiteration of the past. (But in the past we didn't have nuclear weapons, AI, and global warming.) I don't know if all that you write about can work out for the good, but I'm skeptical. Rushing ahead full throttle without reflecting on the potential consequences is usually bad on the personal level, and only amplified on the societal level. If accelerationism is a particularly American movement, maybe Europe or Asia will save the rest of the planet, but it seems China is also all-in on acceleration. So maybe our species is doomed. From one Christian POV, these could be the end times. From a completely secular POV, the rise and fall of civilizations is almost a law (and we're headed for the fall part of the cycle; whether the fall is so absolute that there can be no rise remains to be seen).
Finally, thanks for having spellcheck built into these comments; it saved me from several errors. :)
Thanks, Lincoln.
The funny part about the spellcheck is that I didn't even notice the word was spelled wrong until Substack, in which Andreessen is a big investor, flagged it lol.
My head is spinning thank you Greg Wow
Ain’t that the truth…
Thanks, Nancy. Mine too!
Or maybe we are building a new Babylon, to be wrecked. Wow sometimes you're scary af. Thanks
Babyon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are smashed unto the ground...
Interesting—I hadn’t heard of this. I think, btw, that the dog with the legs is a dachshund.
I’m not going to be around to experience the fullness of AI, even if it accelerates madly. On the subject of Reuse, recycle, reduce., however we are already there without any chips involved. Not just the rote and robotic lies of this administration. For my birthday I went to see Sinners—a great movie. But we got there early and had to endure almost an hour of previews. And I realized that not ONE of the upcoming shows was an original anything. All spinoffs or retreads or sequels. As they dragged on, I kept waiting for something original. Luckily, the main attraction was original and delightful, even if the bad guys were Irish and into my favorite songs. But it looks like the last original thing to visit that multiplex for some time.
I suspect that AI could come up with something less formulaic than those upcoming flicks
Chump is getting involved with the movie industry. Should be Goebbels on steroids. Didn’t Hitler have a go at cinematic propaganda…
The only artful person in the entire Third Reich was Leni Riefenstahl. Trump has no such analog.
Funny how art gets hooked into mundane propaganda
ah. Art has many uses:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421368108881416578/
Yep, our rap, country etc. but creativity, for better or worse, is there. Maybe Fox’s “entertainment news” qualifies. I’m sure that chump taking over the Kennedy Center will produce some interesting wrestling.
Thanks, Susan. "Poodle" is such a funny word, though...and the name of the club at which Kash Patel hangs out in Vegas.
They keep showing adds for the new Superman movie, and it's like: why? It doesn't even look good, it looks like CGI crap. What's the point? I haven't seen SINNERS yet but it's on our list.
Good Lord! A brain warp if there ever was one. When the writings of Ted Kaczynski make more sense than our current “genuses,” heaven help us. I will venture a guess that chump has not a clue that he is a tool for the “enshitification folks, but he would be on board. Nor do MAGAts, nor the “conservatives” that are all gung ho for the ways to distress democrats. The fringe is married to the political right and people are just waking up. Like me. Not sure I get it yet. But my brain cells are getting a workout like never before. Or maybe we all are sheep. Hopefully, what comes from the meshing of brains, stupidity, inhumanity, fearful ignorance, and of course, God delusions, will be trampled down by a movement that is still ignorant of so much about our internal enemy
TCinLA describes the “enshitification” of chump’s maladministration. I thought that was a word coined by TC. Anyway, it certainly fits. Reagan’s favorite warning. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help,” is now a threat like none we have faced before. Thank you, I think…
Yeah, it really does hurt the brain, not least because so much of it is perfectly logical and positive. Kaczynski's "tech is the root of all evil" premise is interesting and defensible, but he goes into this weird anti-"leftist" diatribe that occupies a third of the manifesto, and is nothing more than a fancy way of shitting on people who care about other people...although even there I know what he's trying to say.
I will think about this for a long time