Remember the American government can send a rocket to the moon and finance three wars simultaneously, and apparently an inevitable nuclear apocalypse, but it can’t afford day care, social security or a functioning healthcare system….
Work until you die. Consume until you die. Be obedient until you die. Stand for the flag, sing for the flag, die for the flag. Live for the ruiling class, die for the ruiling class.
Repeat.
People say there’s no magic in books but the fact that you can string words together to create a series of visions in someone else’s brain is still our greatest achievement as a species.
I do not give a single shit about how good generative ai might get, I will not be consuming it because it is not about the quality. It is about the art stolen, the lack of human emotion. I don't want to be watching "art" made by something that can't have a fetish or be spiteful.
I’m not sure people fully realize the looming catastrophe of a world in which students at elite universities are struggling to read even a single book. Mass literacy quite literally built the modern world. Without it, our entire civilizational project will unravel, rapidly.
I'm not depressed I just need to dismantle the system that requires you to have $250,000 in savings before you are allowed the stability and security to regulate your nervous system enough to stop cortisolmaxxing