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.
"Basically ANYTHING you can learn from reading Moby Dick, you can ALSO learn from reading and learning the lore in Darksouls or Warhammer or the witcher, etc."
If you truly believe this, you are pretty much proving sueanon2017's point.
So just because something isn't some novel wrote decades ago, it can't have any kind of deep messages or themes that speak to people regardless of age? You're kind of proving MY point here about the boomer mentality of some people that causes younger generations to, if not hate them, at least be turned off by them.
THIS is why people under 30 generally despise older generation people they're not directly related to. Literally anything modern and "different" is "crap" and the only "proper" forms of entertainment media are books written decades ago that the exact same themes and follow the literal blueprint for the hero's journey (the writing concept) or some other theme that modern media can quite easily do and often is more engaging because you're actively PART of said journey.