I relate, you make me want to spill my guts out to you. So I shall try to dm you

But yeah, we’re going to have to pay the piper.

I agree almost completely. I just don’t want to give in to the will of the boards of directors that do their best to maximize the disinformation to maximize their short term profits.

There’s got to be more value to civilization than that, right? Things are real and truth has value even if meaning doesn’t matter.

I guess I just like to dream about what we could be, but it’s not getting any easier to believe in it.

Yes to all but the last sentence. We live and act, how can we use that best for the rest of us? Smarts have nothing to do with it.

Unusual maybe, but I wish it wasn’t so easy to accept it as just another part of history. I hoped we were better than this with all the new tech, but I guess old habits die hard. The new tech just seems to be a new tool they’ve been getting the hang of, and AI makes the dumbest sound less dumb to the ridiculously ignorant by choice. By so many choices I can’t fathom.