The Times They Are A Changin

We now live in the era of distressed jeans. People save their money to buy clothes that come with the holes already in them. They buy "organic" food that costs three times as much, "craft beer" the same. In an article about how the Israeli military used AI to generate targets which were then considered "legitimate", such disavowal is explained thus: "There is also the active suppression of their own thinking." The trust in technology allowed them to avoid their own conscience and "pull the wool over their own eyes". Now we simply have to extrapolate and imagine this process happening on a meta scale. Speaking of Israeli military, soldiers in the West Bank were caught on video murdering two Palestinians who were attempting to surrender. As they have been doing for years. Israel promises to look into it. At a protest at a NY city synagogue, a group promoting settlement in the West Bank was met with chants of "death to the IDF". Everyone was outraged! Such language! Jews were afraid and Mamdani was forced to condemn the chants. Zionism is where fearful Jews take precedence over dead Palestinians. Who really wants to know what they are thinking? Hillary Clinton was asked in an interview why young people were turning against Israel and she said the Chinese control the algorithms on the social media they watch. What she sees is real, what you see is fake. The dead babies are manufactured. She is intelligent enough to recognize the absurdity of such a statement but prefers not to examine it, prefers to suppress her own thinking. This is the ludicrous, Kafkaesque, bureaucratic horror of Catch 22 taken to the next level. Thanks in part to the new technology mediating our direct experience, or as the poet Anne Winters put it so long ago: "a sift in the structure of experience." Young people prefer chatting with their AI companion to real humans.Some fall in love with their machines. But don't worry, soon we will have nuclear fission and free energy, genetic engineering and immortality and sentient AI to fuse with us. What me worry?