Of Two Minds

Unexpected things tend to happen when the real source of problems are papered over and then suddenly reality intrudes.

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.