Manifesto of Futurism

It was via another creator, right? Another writer, I should say.

So what startled me the most was its similarities to Marinetti, the Italian futurist manifesto of 1909 that was published in Le Figaro.

And I should preface this by saying is that in general, this idea of this optimism, this accelerationism, all these ideas of technology is gonna fix the future, it's gonna help us progress among other things, other ideas like that, and it's quite deterministic.

Also, as technologic- as technology progresses, the assumption is that everyone is everyone, but this is also the contentious part.

So what I mean by this is in, when he says is, "We will glorify war, beautiful ideas worth dying for, comma, and for, the scorn for women," which I think it's very important to keep in mind when we talk about futurism.

"We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind.

We'll fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice." So yeah, that's one of the last points in the Futurist manifesto.

Yeah.

In Italy, there was this group called the Futurists, who saw technology and violence and speed as the key to the future of civilization.

And the writer of the Futurist Manifesto ends up writing a few years later something called The Fascist Manifesto and was a collaborator with Mussolini in developing this idea of fascism.

So I write about that a little in my book, not enough for my academic critics, but that's their job is to write that longer book about that particular...

Interchange.

Exactly.

A, a real central figure during the rise of fascism in Italy is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who pinned the, penned the Futurist Manifesto in the very early 20th century.

This manifesto talks about the sort of uselessness of museums compared to the, the, the racing car and the train that are speeding towards the future, and the sort of, that it's all about going fast, and you can just so easily equate this to move fast and break things.

Yeah.

Like, whether or not there's actual applications to the AI, big problem is who owns it.

Exactly, and that's what we're coming to next.

So I mentioned the futurist manifesto of the very early 20th century, and that was pretty popular in fascist Italy, although they also had their, uh, disagreements with Marinetti, and that's another story for another time.

But the futurist manifesto is also very popular in Silicon Valley today.

and were known for their radical and energetic embrace of modernity, technology, and the dynamic aspects of urban life.

Futurism was actually founded by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marionetti, who published the Futurist Manifesto in about 1909.

And effectively, what he was doing was calling for the rejection of the past and a celebration of everything that was about to come about or starting to come about.

Speed, machinery, youth, industry, all of those kind of things.