Critical thinking and literacy have been replaced by conspiracy theory participation and divining corporate intentions and outcomes, including franchise fandom and gambling.
This is what happens with a relentless war on education and creates an ideal environment for oligarchical control.
This is what happens with a relentless war on education and creates an ideal environment for oligarchical control.
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It’s a state of mind that more closely resembles complete mystification during feudalism than anything approaching informed democratic participation.
Capitalism has so thoroughly captured information and power that the best most can do is watch and participate as consumers.
And a great deal of *that* stuff is now harnessed directly to influence-peddlers' dashboards.
The problem is sickeningly obvious, as is the solution. But we’re sleepwalking into the abyss.
Now it’s everywhere and everything. And you can see it worsen by the day, by the hour.
I hate watching the decline all around me and feeling so helpless.
I wish the Dems would talk more about being the party of people against the automation of the future.
We all want robots to do our chores. But not at the expense of my gma starving
I see the difference between the ability of my husband and myself (1956) to my son (1981) and his 3 children (2006-2017). I'm a computer scientist and have been using them since 1975.
I wonder what society will look like in the future.
I suspect much like the movie, Logan's Run. Perhaps not the malevolence but machines will be necessary to do what was lost in brainpower.