Renewed patriotism is being used to justify neoliberalism’s life support, rather than political and economic transformation. There is another way forward as progressive pockets are demonstrating around the world.
I think the general level of ignorance has been obfuscated by social media’s polarization of public discourse. AI has only increased the number of people who espouse opinions they did not form themselves.
Agreed. Social media and now LLMs are pushing ideas onto people that they haven’t spent any time considering at all for sure. Doesn’t stop them from being completely consumed by the propaganda being fed to them at every moment.
The political spectrum of your average person has definitely shifted pretty far to the right. The LPC is centre right to right. NDP are center it seems, and the Cons haven’t had anything but a far right to extreme right idea in decades. Greens can’t even figure out their own leadership so they may as well have no stances currently.
I would love to see actual left wing parties, and regulation of the tech world. But as far as I can tell the future holds Datacenters for military use and that seems to be about it. And this is true regardless of which country you live in. All of them are obsessed with automating ourselves out of existence.
And none of that even touches on our complete and utter lack of action on climate world wide. I’m unsure what the Epstein class has in store for the future that isn’t the obvious death of billions of people so they can go hide in their bunkers until they starve. They seem convinced that “AI” and robots are going to be sufficient to survive without all of us, but I’ve yet to see anything resembling actual AI at all, and the robots aren’t “replace labour” level yet.
I think the general level of ignorance has been obfuscated by social media’s polarization of public discourse. AI has only increased the number of people who espouse opinions they did not form themselves.
Agreed. Social media and now LLMs are pushing ideas onto people that they haven’t spent any time considering at all for sure. Doesn’t stop them from being completely consumed by the propaganda being fed to them at every moment.
The political spectrum of your average person has definitely shifted pretty far to the right. The LPC is centre right to right. NDP are center it seems, and the Cons haven’t had anything but a far right to extreme right idea in decades. Greens can’t even figure out their own leadership so they may as well have no stances currently.
I would love to see actual left wing parties, and regulation of the tech world. But as far as I can tell the future holds Datacenters for military use and that seems to be about it. And this is true regardless of which country you live in. All of them are obsessed with automating ourselves out of existence.
And none of that even touches on our complete and utter lack of action on climate world wide. I’m unsure what the Epstein class has in store for the future that isn’t the obvious death of billions of people so they can go hide in their bunkers until they starve. They seem convinced that “AI” and robots are going to be sufficient to survive without all of us, but I’ve yet to see anything resembling actual AI at all, and the robots aren’t “replace labour” level yet.