Robert's Reflections
No Irish political or social movement has been successful without some part of its intellectual foundation rooted in narrative of some form: the Fianna relied on oral tradition for inspiration, the Society of United Irishmen were thrust into action by the writings of Robespierre and Paine, the Irish Literary Revival was coloured by the some of the same stories that animated the Fianna with Paine going on to further influence Daniel O’Connell and the subsequent Home Rule and independence movements.
At the margins, conditions in Ireland compelled contemporary thinkers into new forms of thinking with Edmund Burke, Henry George and Mahatma Gandhi notable examples of those whose writings, partly in response to Ireland, went on to propel the island through history. Modern Ireland is directionless with one probable cause the lack of a unifying narrative that compels a portion of the population to become agentic.
For Éire Accelerationism (É/Acc) to succeed, the movement must have some body of work that distils the core ideas necessary for Ireland to realise its destiny as a country with infrastructure, energy and housing in abundance. Such writings should emphasise the unique and disproportionate role the island has played in civilisation’s history, prize all that being high agency entails, including individualism, and highlight the importance of the misfit, the Great Man Theory of history should follow logically if the importance of being agentic is assumed. Poorly constructed but tempting ideas should as utilitarianism should be avoided for fear of attracting the wrong personality types, as has happened in other movements, and instead only those ideas that can be logically proven to be true should be accommodated - Burke must be lionised, John Stuart Mill should not be.
