Acceleration in theory, or as a revolutionary concept, is true. We've seen horrible national suffering be exploited for energetic revivals in the not so distant past. The meaningful difference between an 'accelerationist' and pragmatist, though, is that we do not want bad things to happen, rather we happen to figure out something useful from something painful. I'm not an optimist; I'm negative, negative in that I dwell on bad outcomes and how to twist them. Cover that and you can recover the rest.