People’s ability to understand written text
was already in decline.
Handwriting skills were declining as well.
Later, even the ability to compose texts
on a computer began to deteriorate.
All of this was measured.
Warnings were issued repeatedly.
Most people were already unable
to concentrate for more than a few seconds.
Social media made this worse.
And so generations came into being
incapable of understanding texts,
constantly hungry for stimuli ----:>
more, more, more encouragement,
higher and higher thresholds.
Now, pseudo-artificial intelligence
has been released on top of this.
It reads and writes on behalf of those
who can neither comprehend what they read
nor write at all.
And I am supposed to believe
that everything is fine,
that this is, in fact, no different
from any previous technological transition.
I do not see it that way.
I believe that never before
have we been this close to a moment
in which a new form of barbarism emerges—
one that destroys, ruins, wipes out
within moments
what thousands of years of development created.
Of course, there will be exceptions.
There will be people who refuse this.
They will educate themselves,
disconnect from social media,
learn to understand texts.
They will read—
existing papers, novels, poems—
and they will write,
by hand, by machine, however it may be.
But the majority will not.
And alongside all of this, there will still be
climate change, inequality, pollution,
the extinction of species
and the destruction of living environments.
I do not know what will happen,
but that it will not be a bright future—
that is almost entirely certain.
We fucked this up.
And all the while the majority smiles,
pretending this is exciting,
in the scorching light of a heating planet.
There is no mirror left, no honesty,
only money, the instant,
and countless greedy,
self-adoring minds.
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