Zdzisław Beksiński. Untitled, 1973
Certain strains of accelerationist anarchism, particularly those you find online, are just celebrating the oppression and death of minorities with a tacky veneer of “for the greater good” smeared over, change my mind.
They exist the same way hydrogen does. They are an inherent part of the universe, and all trying to break that does for you is blow up in your face.
You, just like the rest of us, are an infinitesimal speck of dust on a surface of an unremarkable ball of rock orbiting a star just like trillions of others, whose existence as a thinking entity will likely span less than 100 years out of the 100 trillion years that the universe will exist in a meaningful sense before the stars die and the last black holes evaporate.
The universe owes you nothing; human rights are nothing more than the common decency we owe one another in the face of an uncaring universe, and the idea that anybody other than the ruling class should even have them in any meaningful sense has a surprisingly short history. In contrast, the idea that might makes right is as old as the first predatory microbes. If a society believes in the value of human rights, it needs to be ready and able to vigorously defend them against would-be strongmen who don’t feel constrained by rules and norms of behavior, who will happily banish those rights back to the philosophical ether from which they came if it means they can secure more power and comfort for themselves.
Cold uncaring universe MFers when they realized they just outed themselves as a sociopath since as a part of the universe the only way they could actually believe it’s cold and uncaring is if they themselves don’t care about anything or anyone and are projecting.
You are not an observer looking in, you are a part of, and as a part of, what you see is nothing more than a reflection of yourself.
Understanding of calculus is a shockingly recent development too, does that mean that planets shouldn’t have been able to stay in orbit until Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz figured out how it could be possible?
The idea that as a living breathing thinking person you are entitled to a bare minimum standard doesn’t stop being true or any less a natural law just because you’re a pathetic worm who chooses to believe the person beating you with a stick has a right to because something something might makes right.
Cruelty is unnatural, authoritarianism is unnatural, the estrangement from our rights is unnatural, and your nihilism is nothing but to spit in the face of the universe and act shocked when all you’ve done is get spit in your eye and decided to bitch philosophical about it.
So by this logic, things were great by default?
It’s a fundamental law of nature. Okay. God given?
God Irrelevant.
I mean this sincerely. You are naive if you believe human rights appeared out of thin air. No offense intended.