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Increase the number of courses of action and adventure options per unit time: doing more in less time

Competition as the predominant principle of the

allocation of privileges, power, status, recognition, ...

Social position as an object of permanent competitive negotiation

living life to the fullest means: maximizing options

but: variety of options exceeds the opportunities a person can use in the course of his/her life --> increasing the pace of life

The same techniques that help us to save time, lead to explosion of the options

Acceleration & Personal Growth

Mental infrastructures and degrowth transformation

Why do most people feel like they are running out of time although new technologies and increased efficiency should give us more time to spend freely?

How can we explain the fact that the shortage of time increases the more time you save?

What causes acceleration?

Where do your experiences (from this morning) relate to this?

What do you find critical?

What is (social) acceleration?

1. technical acceleration

2. acceleration of social change

3. acceleration of the pace of life

Quantity!

Social acceleration represents the shortening of the periods we call/determine as the present.

>>shrinking of the presence<<

Personal Growth

Hartmut Rosa

What exactly needs to grow when we talk about personal growth?

Who decides what needs to grow?

Where is personal growth helpful, where can it be a hindrance?

the social motor: competition

the cultural motor: the promise of eternity

rate of growth

rate of acceleration

Acceleration outweights deceleration!

Time norms seem "natural"

---> socially constructed

acceleration as a new form of totalitarianism!

acceleration of the pace of life

acceleration of social change

to remain stable,

you have to grow -

both economically

and individually!

Reason: half-life period / desvaluation of knowledge

technical acceleration

And now?

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