Disruption ideology assumes breakdown produces improvement without evidence

Evidence

Confidence in this perception was so deeply internalized that these capitalists spoke of “disruption” in society without feeling the need to demonstrate that aggressively shaking things up would lead to improvements. This was not far off the logic of “beneath the stones, the beach,” or Tiririca’s “it can’t get any worse.” Smash things up, and something better will emerge from the wreckage. This assumption seemed widespread. In the 2008 election campaign, a young senator named Barack Obama had plastered his face over the unaccompanied word “CHANGE,” and few people stopped to recognize that everything bad that happens is change, too. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 298

Categorization

• APHORISMS: “Everything bad that happens is change, too” is a genuinely sharp, quotable corrective to change-fetishism.
• SEED: Good core for a critique of disruption rhetoric across tech and politics.
• XREF: connects to: Post-crisis commentary failures stem from refusing to admit the ideology itself failed — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 35; Negative dialectic fails massively yet that failure is no discredit — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 1393; Treating experience as the ground of truth blocks a usable theory of ideology. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 201

Broader Connections

• Post-crisis commentary failures stem from refusing to admit the ideology itself failed #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 35
• Negative dialectic fails massively yet that failure is no discredit #exemplifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 1393
• Treating experience as the ground of truth blocks a usable theory of ideology. #complicates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 201