Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 days agoBecause most Americans with slack jaws hunch over their smartphone gawking at tiktok videos of people they hope to one day be but never will.
“mOsT aMeRiCaNs…”
Blah, blah, blah. If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up, I’m all ears. But the way I see it, these things were insidiously marketed to the whole country slowly and incrementally, like frog in a slowly warming pot of water. Those of us who jumped out of the pot are watching in horror as the rest get boiled alive.
The problem is, frogs don’t have opposable thumbs and we can’t turn the gas off - so the pot keeps boiling.
The best you and I can do is to look out for each other, our friends and family and help anyone else that manages to escape the pot as quickly as possible so they don’t get back in…
My thoughts are that people are animals and they’ll follow where the majority go, so keep helping others escape the pot and eventually, more will notice there is an exit option and jump as well.
At the moment, I see this as the only real answer. Until there’s proper organization and resistance, everything is lip service.
Mobilization is easy - the protests and marches get people together in solidarity. But organization takes effort: it takes talking to people, getting numbers/contact info, making plans and deciding what’s next…
If you can tell me how to un-fuck this nation in a way that will actually wake people up
People are already Woke Up. They’re still powerless.
Agreed. We’re partially awake.
Yeah right. Almost half the people I talk to are not happy but are burning their heads in the sand and waiting/hoping for this to blow over. It can’t happen here and all that.
burning their heads in the sand
Ouch, sounds painful.
Powerless?
Or is it learned helplessness?
It’s exactly that.
This doesn’t happen in a bubble though. We need those people too. We need each other.
We’re still in the pot, dude. It’s a double-boiler, we only jumped out of the inner chamber where even the metal on the bottom doesn’t go above boiling temperature…
In other words, a slave wants to have their own slaves, instead of being free.
That’s an ugly feature of human nature, as well as some victims thinking the solution to their victimization is to have someone they can victimize too.
Look, I hate the Americans with a seething passion as well, but they’re getting fucked over even more than we are right now.
Evil doesn’t suddenly become okay when you dislike the victims…
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
Really feeling the victim blaming here when they made the devices into virtual heroine
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There’s probably a good analogy out there about addiction but I saw something flashy on my smartphone and got distracted.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals so we’re easy to distract and get fucken enamored
Hominine@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well done! I remember that song fondly.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Okay, so that helps no one.
Anyone else have any input?
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
read this webcomic, and then consider the reality that we’re living in both of those worlds.
it’s easy to dismiss politics, corruption, fraud, rape, pedophelia, and all the other atrocious things people are dismissing, when you have infinite scroll on your instafacetwitsnaptoktube feed, and you’re fishing for those likes and subscribes, baby!
enterpries@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Bro, come on. People are glued to their phones the same reason you’re glued to your computer.
The outside world fucking sucks unless you’re a scammer or rich enough to be scammed without noticing it.
It’s free to be on our devices, which is why most people are doing it. Everything else costs money that people straight up do not have.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
*heroin
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
No, no, they made devices into strong female protagonists!
/s