Excluded masses may revolt violently against acceleration society

Evidence

It stands to reason that modern society will have to pay for the loss of the ability to balance movement and inertia with nuclear or climatic catastrophes, with the diffusion at a furious pace of new diseases, or with new forms of political collapse and the eruption of uncontrolled violence, which can be particularly expected where the masses excluded from the processes of acceleration and growth take a stand against the acceleration society. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 850

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Unequal subsystem acceleration generates new waiting times — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 802; Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1243; Spontaneous mass uprising without organized revolutionary leadership invites state suppression — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 77 (+10 more)

Broader Connections