AI arrives precisely at the moment when an entire generation loses its ability to read, write, and sustain attention. When the human mind weakens, a substitute mind steps in. If a people can’t interpret text, can’t hold complexity, can’t question, can’t imagine — then the tool thinks for them. And once a tool starts thinking for you, it can start choosing for you.
Most Importantly: AI is not replacing intelligence; it’s replacing the practice that builds intelligence. When literacy drops, discernment drops. When discernment drops, narratives can be implanted. When narratives can be implanted, control becomes effortless. And that is exactly when AI enters the scene.
The bottom line:
A people who cannot read are a people who must be told. A people who cannot write are a people who cannot remember. A people who cannot think deeply are a people who can be guided anywhere.
The most important step to overcoming the new system is to educate our children. And that’s just not happening. That should be the biggest, most momentous effort right now—all our leaders should be talking and thinking about. In the end, it’s the only thing that matters.
I dont think this is entirely true. Public schools are struggling everywhere with literacy, attention issues, critical thinking, simple math and science. Overall just plain dumb kids that easily sway whichever direction a pop star, rap star, sports star, or tick tok tells them too. Parents are too blame for being missing, inattentive, enforcing no values or ethics, no religion, no god, or forced to work hard to make ends meet leaving no room in their world for their kids.
Alright this is my last comment on this post because I'm getting tired of arguing with boomers who're stuck in their ways. But this one needs to be said. You people can't have it both ways. People on this board will talk about how stupid, illiterate, incapable of basic math, and lemming like younger generations are, and in THE SAME FREAKING BREATH, they'll make posts about how based the current generation is, how conservative they are, "there's hope for this country yet" type of posts, etc.
You people can't have it both ways, either civilization is doomed because everyone under 30 is a dumbass who can barely breath, or they're freaking normal people who're the same as you with a different preferences in terms of media and what they find interesting/fun.
Both of these things can't be true at the same time, and I'm tired of the boomer mentality a lot of people have about everything when it comes to "the youth".