Learn to Garden.
No seriously.
AI represents the pinnacle of consumerism.
The culmination of a system where Humans produce nothing for their own consumption.
Fractured communities of isolated and desperate consumer-workers who cannot survive outside the system they were born into.
To undermine this system requires not just attacking it’s foundation, but digging beneath to the fundament, usurping it through a grass roots refusal to participate.
Beneath the foundations of consumerism, capitalism, and every society we can remember is agriculture.
Stop participating in the high price of groceries.
Start producing your own food, feeding, and growing your community.
You don’t have to make everything from scratch to reject the Door Dash Fast Food Overnight Delivery system that exists entirely to extract profit from the human need to eat.
Use capitalism to your advantage. Buy hydroponics and lights to grow indoors year round. Buy hoop houses to extend outdoor seasons. Buy seeds. Grow seedlings and give them away.
Learn to harvest seeds from the plants you grow.
Cook and preserve food. Fill a pantry/freezer and EAT what’s in it!
Work together with your friends/neighbours to support local farmers and grocers.
Learn about plant Hardiness and what crops will remain/become viable in your region.
Then take this concept and apply it to every other aspect of human existence that’s been coopted to fund a system that ultimately results in AI slop.
What I’ve seen about AI is that it has been presented itself as a souped-up meme or quote generator except it’s built on top of accumulated training data from thousands if not millions of sources it takes without consent nor compensation.
Any institution of education should be teaching about the arts but also fostering real creativity and encouraging active imagination instead of expecting students to finish only for the diploma then dropped in like a cog inside a vast machine.
127.0.0.1 chatgpt.comYou know how Karl Marx said the workers need to seize the means of production? AI, from the perspective of the shareholder class, represents the opportunity to “seize the means of the worker.” The way I see it, our only way off this ride is to stop participating in the consumerism that funds it. No matter how you slice it, that means food. People don’t need to become subsistence farmers, but if we switched from buying premade food to making our own we’d be defunding the machine while rebuilding our communities.