General Discussion

Or at least of my maturing life is that controlled hierarchical systems really were necessary for human progress. Once all information, facts, logic, and reality become democratized to the point of perpetual lowest common denominator settings, a society can rapidly go to shit.

That's where we are now. The dumbest people alive now have megaphones just as powerful and far-reaching as the knowledgeable and the wise. In fact, some would argue more powerful, because stupid is frequently simplistic and thus more appealing. The "right to my opinion" became a kind of veto to logic.

I increasingly worry that Trump isn't an anomaly - he's the appetizer. That we're in the first swirl of the flush. When higher order thinking goes out the window, all that's left is tribalism.

And AI is not going to make that any better.