Social acceleration is a self-reinforcing feedback loop

Evidence

In light of this basic existential situation of scarce time resources, however, the demand for relief by the time-saving technical acceleration of all goal-directed processes seems like a strategy to which there are no cultural or structural alternatives—and the circle of acceleration thereby closes. Here lies a first and fundamental answer to the question why “everything” in modern society seems to get “faster and faster” or why speed, in Eriksen’s formulation, is “infectious”: in modernity social acceleration becomes a self-propelling process. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 434

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: The three acceleration dimensions recursively drive one another — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 324; Social acceleration itself erodes the preconditions for democratic self-steering — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 442; Stable background institutions were the precondition for modern acceleration — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 286 (+8 more)