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Considering the state of the world, and having talked to many of its inhabitants, I, personally, am unconvinced that is the case.
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Considering the state of the world, and having talked to many of its inhabitants, I, personally, am unconvinced that is the case.
- user-the-name 5y agoThat is just cheap cynicism replacing any real insight. You can do better.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoYou sound very sure of yourself on that, but I can't imagine why. The US elected a reality TV star and inspiration for 80s movie villains a while back, Ukraine is currently run by a comedian. People are apparently paying large sums of money for cryptographic nonsense. Pretty much everyone is trying really hard to pretend that climate change isn't a big deal after spending decades pretending it didn't exist so that they wouldn't (and don't) have to change their lifestyles at all... I could go on. It's remarkably easy to go on. Point being, you may feel better by insisting that it's just 'cheap cynicism', but I remain unconvinced. "corporate VR work rooms and VR school classrooms with billboards in the background" seems like a frighteningly real possibility from where I'm sitting; I watch people spend their lives staring down at a rectangle designed to shove ads in their face all day because "it's the best way to keep in touch".