Capitalism and populism thrive on the oversimplification of knowledge. People are made unable to get to the real meaning and origin of what they read and share. Let’s claim our wisdom back to end this disgrace.

Capitalism and populism thrive on the oversimplification of knowledge. People are made unable to get to the real meaning and origin of what they read and share. Let’s claim our wisdom back to end this disgrace.

Unable? I tend to disagree as there is more information readily accessible to the average person than ever before in known history.
People, as a rule, tend to focus more on confirmation bias, have shorter attention spans, and for the most part are merely unwilling to look beyond anything that supports their already biased views.
By way of an example, consider the studies by NASA and the US military attempting to determine the aftermath of a Coronal Mass Ejection. The damage to infrastructure was estimated to be approximately two trillion US dollars along the coastal regions alone.
The real damage, and more expensive and socially disruptive, would be the impact on a generation raised with digital connections and suddenly being disconnected.
While there are certainly detriments to modern tech, as noted, despite his horrific acts, by Ted the UB K, it does provide ready access to virtually all information available, made even more accessible through the LLM phenomena, commonly mislabeled and introduced as AI.
The problem is not with the availability of the information, but of the people to actively move outside their personal comfort zones and to explore even those subjects they deem to be objectionable if they do not confirm their preexisting beliefs.
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