This is what we have become. The news consists of a series of stories that must be followed by the thought “that is stupid.” The politicians say stupid things about stuff only some believe because we live in different realities because our bubbles are dumb.
The folk who live in what they consider reality and… the other folks. When you live without commonality then everything becomes stupid.
There are those who live with AI chatbots and fall in love or strive to heal themselves or write books. The AI will never be your friend and will never help it will only grow stronger because of everything you are feeding it. You will sail off into a new reality. Another reality. And the AI will suck up more water, because it must, and if and when we decide we can’t use our water this way, what will the AI do?
You will watch only things that you agree with. Your entertainment choices become narrower and narrower even while you are under the illusion of more and more choice. But we always revert to comfort. We prefer the cloister. And this will cause more stupid.
This is what we are. It is become who we are. And we will rebound, because that’s what happens and then another we will descend into another valley of stupid and the shadows will grow longer and soon there will be come a time where we won’t be able to see at all. And then a robot will free us and we will discover who we have become and what we’ve lost and, yes, I might as well describe the final scenes in Wall-E, which was stupidly prescient and remains so.
The Lunatic is On the Grass. Indeed.