Why this word is great
DECELERATIONIST — [Noun] A proponent of slowing the pace of technological and economic progress; one opposed to accelerationism. From deceleration ("the act of slowing down") + -ist ("one who advocates or practices"). Unlike an "accelerationist" (who races toward an imagined techno-utopia) or a "conservationist" (who seeks to protect without rejecting progress outright), the decelerationist insists on the radical act of braking. They are the hand on the throttle, easing back as the train hurtles toward an unproven horizon; the gardener who prunes not out of fear, but to let the roots breathe; the quiet voice in the meeting asking, "What if we didn’t?"—because sometimes the bravest thing is to refuse the momentum of the world.
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- A proponent of slowing down the pace of technological and economic progress; one opposed to accelerationism.“The decelerationists, to the contrary, follow E.F. Schumacher, Kirkpatrick Sale and others (including a variety of Protestant denominations) in the belief that slowing down the technocultural and political economic pace, by engaging in local forms of democracy, will render global and national economic structures irrelevant.”