Of Two Minds

Isn’t AI just a shoddy facsimile of authentic expertise that “serves the state and the media” in a new theater of Spectacle?

After all, “they can always print more money.” That’s always the solution until it becomes the problem.

No nation clinging to the current “waste is growth / landfill economy” will survive the emergent global polycrisis.

Let’s dispense with human presidential candidates and conventions, and replace both the candidates and their supporters with idealized AI fabrications.

Economists and pundits steer well clear of the eventual social and political consequences of America’s entrenched neofeudal wealth-income inequality.

History suggests such a stratified society cannot endure as a democracy.
When we say “The Wealthy Are Not Like You and Me,” most people will assume we’re talking about
ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) with $30 million or more in assets or even the hyper-rich worth hundreds of millions or billionaires.