Many people feel that the internet has seriously declined. It was a great idea, but then, too many people ruined it. As the internet advanced, it changed, and the greed grew exponentially. Social media exploded, saturated with meagerly talented, measly educated, self-appointed experts who, when you use the name Plato, they think of colored clay they played with as children. The internet was genuinely going to create the best-read, most knowledgeable generation in history.
What it actually created was a generation filled with anxiety, seriously lacking social skills, and experiencing more fear and general anxiety than any generation before. Almost all the knowledge of the world was before them. However, all the knowledge in the world doesn’t mean anything if the users have no direction, no goals (except perhaps the number of clicks they get) and no accomplishments to attain. They could be solving calculus problems before seventh grade. But unsupervised, instead, they took photos of each other, what they had for lunch, and all kinds of other things that will go into the garbage bin of Life. Unsupervised technology was never a good idea. Powerful tools in the hands of youngsters rarely creates world-changing results. We gave a block of granite and some chisels to youngsters, and instead of getting a statue of David we got a pile rubble and some very troubled youth. I thought we had already learned that, or maybe greed got in the way. Some aspect of greed has led to the downfall of dozens of governments throughout history. Is there an app for that?
The solution? Oh no, not more laws? Why do we need more laws? Oh wait, I remember now. We have all kinds of scumbags who take things that don’t belong to them from people who can’t defend themselves. The shrinks’ couches are filled, or will be soon, with a generation of young people accusing the people on the other side of the apps that “stole” their youth, that created anxiety and a totally false Fear Of Missing Out. What they missed out of, was a youth that directed their energy to accomplishments within their abilities, replaced by social media, or millions of gigabytes of useless balderdash.
Well, the pigeons have come home to roost. Once again, the government failed to protect vulnerable members of society. Members of our government protected their reelections with the millions of dollars donated to them from social media. Don’t think it didn’t end there. The Artificial Intelligence billionaires have infiltrated their own people into almost every aspect of our federal government. They are ensuring that the government will not pass any law or regulation that will slow down Artificial Intelligence, even when they themselves have no idea where it will end up. The scary part? Maybe that’s what the government wanted all along. A population filled with uneducated citizens who have no notion of critical thinking; a population that will not challenge the most absurd of ideas, who will go along with anything. The sad part is what we could have done, but didn’t. There are only a few billionaires, and millions of citizens. It is about time the citizens started directing policy. The billionaires are far outnumbered, and if they fail, the failure will be on us.
