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- Monfd
- I think the Enlightenment was never as broad or as deep as we thought or hoped.
- Monfd
- I think the typical 'conservative' voter in the USA, at least, just isn't doing an Enlightenment project of any type.
- instastal is now known as fickle
- fickle is now known as stalkfick
- Monfd
- I don't think it's at all sure that the 'conservative' ever rejoins the fold.
- Monfd
- I think it's quite plausible to model Trumpism and the broader post-truth movement as a chapter in the transhumanism/AI narrative.
- Monfd
- This is a cognitive speciation event which will only exacerbate with time.
- Monfd
- Tell me if I am wrong: Is the standard liberal response to simply get out of the vote and overwhelm this faction while only very slightly mitigating the problem?
- Monfd
- What's the standard liberal solution to the actual problem? There's very little discussion of regulation of media. Education is in general extolled as a panacea, and I do think it is broadly useful, but it's battling some entrenched cultural ideology.
- Monfd
- I suspect the foundations of our society collapsed with the increase effectiveness of mass media and AI + social media, and our society doesn't really know what to do.
- Monfd
- So we're just drifting now, off-structure until full crisis requires us to truly revisit the axioms of our system.
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