Brief questions, of speed and direction

I can’t shake the feeling that the world is moving too fast. And while I’m sure we wouldn’t all agree on precisely what in our society carries too much speed, I know that this feeling is shared by many others.¹

A friend of mine says that as technology advances, entropy accelerates. That disorder and randomness (chaos) increase more and more quickly.

That BBC guy (the guy who makes documentaries like Hypernormalization) says the 1970’s American hippies chose to disconnect from a world that had become too complicated for them. He chastises them for giving up, and turning toward individualistic self-care.

In the nonprofit world, and in some parts of the radical left, there is still a tension there - do we withdraw from this avalanche of chaos? Or wade into it, and risk being swept away?

Can we find solace in slowness? Can we build systems that will survive a coming apocalypse?

Or might we find a handhold, and reform it?

Do we create coalitions, building organized revolutions that articulate an abolition of the current system?

Or, should we accelerate the system’s demise, pressing cynically upon its weaknesses, urging on chaos and disorder, bringing about a disorganized collapse, believing we will find more agency in a new, unencumbered world order?

(I only have questions, no answers.)