I confess I am just a poor person who works for food at goodwill sorting. I have seen many things which are stirring to heart but one of those really cut down to it. I had a huge cart with seminal and very recent books about super important college text many of them of scientific nature and others of an important nature like bad affairs concerning publishing in college of all things.

I saw the some of the greatest knowledge the MIT library had to offer being simply recycled. I think they wanted it all to simply disappear. It was troubling to someone that it was at MIT. Down here in the worlds retail therapy dump it troubled me. The act of thinking anything of any sort is in itself has become taboo.

I wanted to save even just one book to read but we aren't allowed to even buy trash there. I cried about this after reviewing all these things in this article. I am profoundly disturbed. I can't even categorize what I feel anymore. It is an unbelievable experience and it isn't good. And it's just the first year of AI. No would could ever be fully prepared for this even if you never logged in to the net in your life. Because everyone else did and being drip fed outrage. I'm just beside myself.

The irony of this headline is not lost on me hahaha.

Strong claim with a stain of nuisance.

I would love to call it bs, because the mass internet is still relatively young and our society still has momentum in taming this medium.

On the other hand though, religion is much older than any medium and still alive and kicking and the enormous amplification by the internet to manipulate useful idiots to keep the status quo for our grande profiteurs is out of question.

The internet is usefull, not just for our information/nonsense/tribal addicted brains, i think, we won't overcome it either way.

>Of course, this can’t go on forever. Eventually people abandon those polluted streams. That’s what will happen after the Age of Information crashes.

No, this Age of "Information" (for want of a better word) has changed the meaning of language itself (and hence our thoughts themselves) so that words like "Truth", "Trust", "Information", "Right/Wrong" etc. no longer mean what they used to. Everything is in the service of Power and Money. Think of it as "Newspeak" in a different form and amplified beyond belief. Everything has changed/will change further and the sane/rational amongst us will just have to find ways to cope with it.

Just a thought, but perhaps don’t open your profound thinkpiece with a cliched metaphor that was already beat to hell three decades ago?