#acceleration - Hello Poetry

The cigarette burns, whiskey half-empty, I stare at the ceiling— my body frozen, like time itself has died. Maybe if I stare long enough, you’ll walk through that door, say, “It’s not your fault,” and we’ll hug, but the silence cuts through, and you’re already gone. Maybe I should have kept quiet, my words too heavy for you to bear. Your foot told me so, and your hands agreed, gripping the wheel, not steering, but letting go. I wish I could wipe your tears, hold your shattered heart and stop the screaming, but it’s too late. So you accelerate, and I’m left in this stillness, a wreck that never crashed.

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Feb 1, 2025

Feb 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM UTC

SyafieR1

Chevy Heart

The cigarette burns, whiskey half-empty, I stare at the ceiling— my body frozen, like time itself has died. Maybe if I stare long enough, you’ll walk through that door, say, “It’s not your fault,” and we’ll hug, but the silence cuts through, and you’re already gone. Maybe I should have kept quiet, my words too heavy for you to bear. Your foot told me so, and your hands agreed, gripping the wheel, not steering, but letting go. I wish I could wipe your tears, hold your shattered heart and stop the screaming, but it’s too late. So you accelerate, and I’m left in this stillness, a wreck that never crashed.

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Modern capitalist society, in order to culturally and structurally reproduce itself, to mantain its formative status quo, must forever be expanding, growing and innovating, increasing production and consumption as well as options and opportunities for connection -in short it must always be dynamically accelerating. This systematic tendency toward escalation changes how people are situated in the world, the ways in which human beings relate to the world. Dynamization in this sense means a fundamental transformation of our relationship to time and space, to other people, to the objects around us, and ultimately to ourselves, to our body and our mental dispositions. This is the point at which acceleration becomes a problem. An aimless, endless compulsion toward escalation ultimately leads to problematic, even dysfunctional or pathological relationships to the world on the part of both subjects and society as a whole. This dysfunction can be observed in the three great crises of the present day: the enviromental crisis, the crisis of democracy, and the psychological crisis (as manifested, for example in ever-growing rates of burnout). Hartmut Rosa, from Resonance A sociology of our relationship to the world

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Nov 17, 2024

Nov 17, 2024 at 5:31 PM UTC

irinia

Acceleration

Modern capitalist society, in order to culturally and structurally reproduce itself, to mantain its formative status quo, must forever be expanding, growing and innovating, increasing production and consumption as well as options and opportunities for connection -in short it must always be dynamically accelerating. This systematic tendency toward escalation changes how people are situated in the world, the ways in which human beings relate to the world. Dynamization in this sense means a fundamental transformation of our relationship to time and space, to other people, to the objects around us, and ultimately to ourselves, to our body and our mental dispositions. This is the point at which acceleration becomes a problem. An aimless, endless compulsion toward escalation ultimately leads to problematic, even dysfunctional or pathological relationships to the world on the part of both subjects and society as a whole. This dysfunction can be observed in the three great crises of the present day: the enviromental crisis, the crisis of democracy, and the psychological crisis (as manifested, for example in ever-growing rates of burnout). Hartmut Rosa, from Resonance A sociology of our relationship to the world

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If my velocity is negative on paper, am I going the wrong direction? If I am accelerating in the opposite direction of my destination, (if I slow down I mean), is it good or bad? How about when a train is positively speeding at a high velocity towards me accelerating positively in my direction Do I run?

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Dec 21, 2015

Dec 21, 2015 at 11:21 AM UTC

melli7

Newtonian Physics

If my velocity is negative on paper, am I going the wrong direction? If I am accelerating in the opposite direction of my destination, (if I slow down I mean), is it good or bad? How about when a train is positively speeding at a high velocity towards me accelerating positively in my direction Do I run?

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