It only took a the worst military defeat since Vietnam, spiking inflation & gas prices, farmers without fertilizer & cratering approval ratings to tell a country of 9 million people to back off.
#ProfileInCourage
I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.
University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.
Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.
There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.
If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.
Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:
Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.
Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.
There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products
@Parodyjeffx 🚨 MAXIMUM CRINGE ALERT 🚨 I thought she “just wanted to be home with the kids” and not doing red carpet walks in sparkly Michael Jackson outfits
Does anyone actually stop to ask what all these data centres are ACTUALLY for?
Hundreds and hundreds in nations across the world, all popping up at exactly the same time, and folks seem apathetic towards the real reason.
I want everyone to stop and ask what interest Google has in releasing mosquitoes. They’re a tech company. Not an environmental group. Not a non-profit. Not a government. A tech company. Just like Bill Gates, I don’t want them anywhere near our wildlife or nature. CC: @LeeMZeldin
@NewsBarron@MattWalshBlog what about his post do you disagree with? why is America First just mean kissing Trump’s
ass while he has failed nearly every campaign promise and backtracked on every promise. He wants to turn our public parks into data centers. What about No New Wars? winning yet?
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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I appreciate Mr. Andreessen's honesty. The oligarchs are making it clear they want to replace human workers with AI & robots and could care less about the suffering they cause.
Sorry, Mr. Andreessen: You're waging war against the working class & we will make sure you will lose.