Well it does apply to individual people. Since animal psychology is mostly design to keep animals safe (not, eg., to flourish), we can persist in severely bad

Well it does apply to individual people. Since animal psychology is mostly design to keep animals safe (not, eg., to flourish), we can persist in severely bad circumstances merely because they arent unsafe. What "getting to rock bottom" does is drive a person to acute unsafety so they are able to overcome the inherent risk of change. This "personal accelerationism" does work, indeed, it may be the only thing that works. I do agree that this likely does not generalise to institutions.