Here's a short list of a few topics that are more urgent than whatever is going on with that orange asshole…
- climate change
- US just killed more than a million of its own citizens during the pandemic
- AI is about to wipe out half of the jobs on the planet
- humans about to become the number two species on the Earth, after AI
- unfair tax system that lets billionaires pay nothing while others pay up to 50%
- erosion of democracy
- plutocracy in the US
- a Supreme Court that’s for sale to highest bidder
- corruption everywhere else in government
- >100 people die each day from an ongoing epidemic that politicians/media refuse to acknowledge
- people no longer have control over their own bodies
- more than half the population doesn’t have equality because of who they are
- nuclear weapons
- hunger and homelessness
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For God’s sake, let’s talk about what matters.
I was not familiar with that work, Une voix dans le désert, or the composer.
It seems an appropriate analogue to what we are facing here.
Thank you.
@Pat A little correction: "wipe out jobs" is not a bad thing in itself. It only becomes bad by the narrative spun by the job-givers(wealth-stealers).
The after AI thing, well, needs an actual intelligence. So far, only humans hurting other humans there.
Plutocracy in the US? I want to add like 90% of the world.
Otherwise, spot on!
Talking about what matters, sounds nice. I would not count on it, judging by experience.
@Pat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Une_voix_dans_le_d%C3%A9sert