The Senate has rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
I probably would be unable to present anything substantial due to the lack of data available under both Trump administration’s Department of Education, and the lack of relevant census data.
The point I’m trying to make is describing us as a monolith of AI slop consumers and social media addicts doesn’t make your calls for change any more heard, nor is an accurate portrayal for how we think for ourselves.
This is not aimed at you and those you know personally. It’s about the broader picture and how I keep hearing copium from some on the left about how once older people die off, everything will be miraculous because the younger people have figured shit out in a way that no one older than them has.
It feels like I’ve heard this one before.
Hell, I can watch old media that has the boomers saying this. People my age (Gen X) said this same kind of stupid shit when I was a kid and an adolescent. I thought it was stupid then and I think it’s stupid now (I still hear Gen X grumbling about how boomers took all the air out of the culture. Yes, they did and still do. Yes, Gen X is the forgotten step child of generations. As my generation was fond of saying, cry me a river, build a bridge and get the fuck over it.). Boomers and the Silent Generation could all disappear tomorrow and we’d still have the same problems. This intergenerational bullshit has been more weaponized now than it has in the past - before it was just movies/TV telling an age bracket that tends towards deep narcissism that they are the special anointed ones, now instead of broadcast, that is narrowcasted with algorithms to match.
The fact is, the conservative project of dismantling public education and making it even worse and generally trying to make people even more idiotic (but compliant) has been decades in the making. So, it’s not quite clear to me what is going to cause a sudden illumination of millions of minds that are drowning in a sea of nonsense.
Like I said, I would love be wrong about not believing that any generation (Z, alpha, beta) have it all figured out. I’d love to live in a world where humans all got increasingly more intelligent and more capable of wrestling with big problems and having more empathy, human decency, etc. Maybe transhumanist breakthroughs will make something like that actually happen, I don’t know. Something like that might be the real game changer.
But while Republicans are actively breaking education and completely taking over all media platforms, I don’t see how some great awakening is going to happen. People don’t tend to suddenly gain critical thinking skills on their own.
I probably would be unable to present anything substantial due to the lack of data available under both Trump administration’s Department of Education, and the lack of relevant census data.
The point I’m trying to make is describing us as a monolith of AI slop consumers and social media addicts doesn’t make your calls for change any more heard, nor is an accurate portrayal for how we think for ourselves.
This is not aimed at you and those you know personally. It’s about the broader picture and how I keep hearing copium from some on the left about how once older people die off, everything will be miraculous because the younger people have figured shit out in a way that no one older than them has.
It feels like I’ve heard this one before.
Hell, I can watch old media that has the boomers saying this. People my age (Gen X) said this same kind of stupid shit when I was a kid and an adolescent. I thought it was stupid then and I think it’s stupid now (I still hear Gen X grumbling about how boomers took all the air out of the culture. Yes, they did and still do. Yes, Gen X is the forgotten step child of generations. As my generation was fond of saying, cry me a river, build a bridge and get the fuck over it.). Boomers and the Silent Generation could all disappear tomorrow and we’d still have the same problems. This intergenerational bullshit has been more weaponized now than it has in the past - before it was just movies/TV telling an age bracket that tends towards deep narcissism that they are the special anointed ones, now instead of broadcast, that is narrowcasted with algorithms to match.
The fact is, the conservative project of dismantling public education and making it even worse and generally trying to make people even more idiotic (but compliant) has been decades in the making. So, it’s not quite clear to me what is going to cause a sudden illumination of millions of minds that are drowning in a sea of nonsense.
Like I said, I would love be wrong about not believing that any generation (Z, alpha, beta) have it all figured out. I’d love to live in a world where humans all got increasingly more intelligent and more capable of wrestling with big problems and having more empathy, human decency, etc. Maybe transhumanist breakthroughs will make something like that actually happen, I don’t know. Something like that might be the real game changer.
But while Republicans are actively breaking education and completely taking over all media platforms, I don’t see how some great awakening is going to happen. People don’t tend to suddenly gain critical thinking skills on their own.