It felt like the ultimate China hype piece to me?
Comment on Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
NYTrash would much rather hype “AI” bullshit than confront the fascism that they constantly nurture.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
orclev@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, the article is right, but for all the wrong reasons. China is taking the lead globally less because of anything it’s doing but more because of what everyone else is. In many ways the US was doomed from the moment one of our two political parties decided its future was best served by appealing to the ignorant and uneducated.
The GOP has spent decades attacking our education system and painting experts and the educated as the enemy all because they had the temerity to say the emperor had no clothes and point out the many ways in which conservative dogma fails. China got incredibly lucky to have just the right economy and connections in the 80s to become everybody’s outsourced manufacturing hub and has further benefited by the US attacking its own educational and research institutions.
China hasn’t so much sprinted past the US as they have maintained their steady pace while the US shot itself in the head because the right hand wanted to be the one in charge of everything.
Trump and the MAGA idiots are just the natural progression of the policies the GOP embraced starting all the way back with Nixon and his southern strategy and accelerated by Reagan and his economic policies.
It turns out it’s hard to be a leader in a technological society when you put the dumbest people you can find in charge of things.