i see it as history repeating itself since various regions/areas/peoples of the east went through their own similar trends.
west asia – for example – was a bastion of philosophy, science and math during the dark ages, but went through an anti-intellectualism period that created the asia minor, levant, and gulf region we know today. the same w east asia as it went into its isolationist period in the 13/14th century.
if we’re lucky, this downward trend won’t have to last centuries like the 2 examples i’ve shared, but we should expect it since that’s how history keeps telling us that it will happen … again.
Maybe, but the starting point is not the same. Now, information travels superfast compared to centuries ago. Governments could keep up, … now they lag behind and don’t keep up.
information does travel faster, but it’s more selective than ever – most americans aren’t even aware of the staggering amounts of propaganda they’re swallowing that is actively fostering this type of mass societal regression despite it being publicly available to them through things like the epstein files and the freedom of information act.
Social media is making western societies dumb and lazy. I realised this even more when I read that TikTok was developed for the westerners, despite it being a chinese product. I thought it had been deveoped in China for the Chinese and it later spilled into the west.
Social media and AI are valuble tools and can help improve society. Federated systems like Lemmy are an example. But humans are driven by profit and convienence so it’s inevitable that the worse of social media ans AI make the headlines. Profit and convienence: these are the root causes that will drive humanity to extinction.
chomsky and parent argued ad nauseam that this selectively exists w their work predating social media by several decades and trump’s gutting of usaid last year proved them right – it’s american government backed ngo’s manufacturing “facts” so that cnn, npr, abc, cbc, bbc, le monde, der speigel, etc. can quote them without being accused of propaganda in the same way that fox news repeats conservative think tanks’ talking points to maga.
Profit and convienence: these are the root causes that will drive humanity to extinction.
considering that we’re actively making climate change worse by effectively baning affordable and scalable green technology from china certainly suggests this trajectory; but i suspect that the covid pause gave us an eye opening glimpse into the impact on nature we if we’re forced to – couple that fact with the inconvenience of eschewing this green technology entails proves that it’s got more to do with the epstein class’ control over us than anything else.
Social media and AI are valuble tools and can help improve society.
it’s been staggering to see how well received ai is in china compared to the western world. the chinese are using it to improve society – so ai is being embraced there – but the esptein class is using it in the west to extract more rent and so it’s poorly received here.
i see it as history repeating itself since various regions/areas/peoples of the east went through their own similar trends.
west asia – for example – was a bastion of philosophy, science and math during the dark ages, but went through an anti-intellectualism period that created the asia minor, levant, and gulf region we know today. the same w east asia as it went into its isolationist period in the 13/14th century.
if we’re lucky, this downward trend won’t have to last centuries like the 2 examples i’ve shared, but we should expect it since that’s how history keeps telling us that it will happen … again.
Maybe, but the starting point is not the same. Now, information travels superfast compared to centuries ago. Governments could keep up, … now they lag behind and don’t keep up.
information does travel faster, but it’s more selective than ever – most americans aren’t even aware of the staggering amounts of propaganda they’re swallowing that is actively fostering this type of mass societal regression despite it being publicly available to them through things like the epstein files and the freedom of information act.
Social media is making western societies dumb and lazy. I realised this even more when I read that TikTok was developed for the westerners, despite it being a chinese product. I thought it had been deveoped in China for the Chinese and it later spilled into the west.
Social media and AI are valuble tools and can help improve society. Federated systems like Lemmy are an example. But humans are driven by profit and convienence so it’s inevitable that the worse of social media ans AI make the headlines. Profit and convienence: these are the root causes that will drive humanity to extinction.
chomsky and parent argued ad nauseam that this selectively exists w their work predating social media by several decades and trump’s gutting of usaid last year proved them right – it’s american government backed ngo’s manufacturing “facts” so that cnn, npr, abc, cbc, bbc, le monde, der speigel, etc. can quote them without being accused of propaganda in the same way that fox news repeats conservative think tanks’ talking points to maga.
considering that we’re actively making climate change worse by effectively baning affordable and scalable green technology from china certainly suggests this trajectory; but i suspect that the covid pause gave us an eye opening glimpse into the impact on nature we if we’re forced to – couple that fact with the inconvenience of eschewing this green technology entails proves that it’s got more to do with the epstein class’ control over us than anything else.
it’s been staggering to see how well received ai is in china compared to the western world. the chinese are using it to improve society – so ai is being embraced there – but the esptein class is using it in the west to extract more rent and so it’s poorly received here.