⚠️ — more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker
ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM— yet perceived threat to American democracy
Hard times are coming, when WE’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how WE live NOW, can see through OUR fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.
WE’ll need writers who can remember freedom, poets, visionaries, realists of a larger reality.
Right NOW, WE need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.
Anti-Intellectualism — a yet perceived threat to American democracy
The United States has long been a nation that values knowledge, expertise and critical thinking.
Founded on the principles of reason and enlightenment, the brilliance of an earlier season, OUR Constitution reflects a commitment to rational debate and informed decision-making.
However, in this most present season, OUR country NOW participates in the viral trend towards anti-intellectualism and the celebration of ignorance.
This cultural shift, post y2k I’d say, poses a clear and present danger to American democracy as it NOW undermines the very foundation upon which OUR nation was built.
While there are several factors contributing to the rise of anti-intellectualism in the United States, the most significant is the increasing decline of traditional sources of authority, i.e. legacy media, the government and the church.
Within the law of Moore’s decline resides an unavoidable void, a burgeoning vacuum, beings fed by the proliferation of the radical realizations, long promised, of the captivating potential held within, an internet.
This grid of modernity, a web ensnaring world wide, NOW engorges a mesmerized herd.
THE HERD, rendered oblivious of YOUR slumber through ubiquitous, ambiguously individualized and personalized streams, NOW FEEDS, collectively destabilizing in the light at speed, US — WE ambiguous beings and OUR human capacity for humanity.
In OUR 3-nanometer manipulation of modernity, the ego-energizing de-socializing effects of social media are nearing a critical threshold, ominously resonating throughout humanity, particularly relevant HERE and NOW in OUR country.
Humming ever louder, a rhythmic drumbeating-familiarity with past dark seasons, a dissonant discord resonates and screams with a great vengeance and furious anger within many Americans, beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men, NOW shocked by the current amplification of social and economic change.
For YOU see WE are NOW lost, forever, no matter how temporary, aloft within the clouds of this digital climate of change WE have so cleverly electrified and digitized, OUR changing reality within an artificially intelligent modernity.
It is no wonder many readers and individuals feel disoriented, perplexingly disconnected, I’d say in the days since y2k, and have techno-evolved and strayed away from democratic institutions that YOU NOW perceive as out of touch, as hostile to YOUR values and interests.
The roaring stream NOW leads the hubris herd towards stampede — the perilous rejection of OUR formally esteemed ambitious aspirations of enlightenment and reason.
Whether or not YOU agree YOU NOW see WE’ve been blown off course, herded onto a path that seeks to lead, blatantly, to extinguishing diverse aspirations and ambitions and the remaining flickering lumens of OUR nation’s downtrodden soul.
One of the most concerning aspects of this trending mind-numbing willingness towards OUR dumbing-down decline is how it has been championed and embraced by the most powerful American political leaders.
From the highest office of the land, to members of Congress and the courts and into YOU, through this fan-spangled, span-dangling digital age, there rapidly is approaching, a SYMPOSIUM, that is to say, in other words, a prolific psychosomatic exploration of the self-diagnosed exceptionalism, beating at the heart, from OUR start, propelling an American proliferation of the disfiguring transfiguration of society, through mesmerizing domestic technological innovations entitled, —“Anti-intellectualism, Present Demagoguery, and Fear-Mongering in the Pursuit of Power”.
Leaders who, obviously unlikely to attend YOU see, wantonly buck tradition and decorum, disregard my invite and fail to RSVP, engage in this behavior NOW seek to undermine the credibility of experts and institutions that they demean as a threat to personal projections of power and agenda.
They will further perpetuate the crafting of their appeal to base emotions and prejudices, pridefully promoting projects and promises that plot with machinations and manipulations of the past, in pursuit of the propagandized prize of perturbing public opinion and stoking the flames of aestheticized politics, so eagerly awaiting their escape from the bowels of history — through increasingly widening cracks of societal division.
The increasing polarization of political discourse, burgeoning qelusions of sycophantical politico-religiosity, contributes to the rise of American anti-intellectualism HERE and NOW in OUR country.
Facts and evidence are NOW dismissed as partisan propaganda, fueling a general distrust of institutions seen as part of the establishment, i.e. old media, constitutional foundations of democracy, academia and NOW, even science.
This dynamic is particularly evident in the current American conversation on change, and OUR issues with the climate WE NOW find OURselves, where many Americans continue to agree with their feed to deny, overwhelming scientific evidence, human activity is impacting and contributing to current global warming underway and resist efforts to mitigate its effects.
Similarly, literally going viral during Covid 19, the growing skepticism of vaccines and the rejection of established medical science demonstrate a dangerous trend where individuals reject scientific evidence, putting not only YOURSELF but also YOUR communities, OUR country, at risk.
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Social media playes an outsized role in fueling OUR demise, by amplifying the live wires of surging trends.
It provides, I won’t deny, a platform✨for a voice to rise above the herd to be heard, a mind to propagate and indoctrinate and a wanted writer who weaves HIS voice, MY story, cleverly and within the cacophony, thus, i.e THE TAPESTRY of social media — A REALM where a FREE market and an INVISIBLE HAND actively encourage SELF INTEREST.
In today’s digital world, one WE are not too far from today, there will be days, DAYS in which WE all can agree can seem like an eternity at times, funny thing that time, a time, and then time, after time after time when YOUR human consciousness intertwines more with a machine than with other human beings as Corporations and companies, economies create trillionaires.
They’ve always existed and they always probably will but I do ask who are these herdsmen and women today?
A small group of folks LEADING tech and designing this choose YOUR own adventurous wonderland? Wait, what was I saying — ah yes, talking about the tapestry WE willingly weave as WE all do believe social media may not make billionaires, BUT it does make millionaires and with that delusional aside, regardless of their accuracy or credibility and ultimately for YOU too NOW can see that WE have created an electrified environment in which conspiracy theories and misinformation can spread quickly and be believed.
The algorithms that underpin social media platforms prioritize content that is emotionally charged or controversial, further amplifying mindless voices that may be misinformed, dishonest or dangerously LIVE.
This dynamic can make it difficult for individuals within the herd to distinguish between accurate and inaccurate information, leading YOU to rely on sources that may be biased, misleading or UNGROUNDED.
Ultimately, YOU see, the celebration of ignorance and stupidity leads to a situation where false information and conspiracy theories are accepted, simply because they fit preconceived notions or biases.
This dynamo is a danger to American democracy, as it energizes a culture of distrust and division, where expertise and knowledge are dismissed and manipulation by those who exploit fears and prejudices for their gain thrives.
It is a path NOW leading US to an approaching catastrophic unplugging, violently discharging social trust, as security and unity dissipate with the fracturing of democracy.
To combat the American rise of anti-intellectualism, the value of expertise and knowledge must be reaffirmed and ignorance must not be celebrated.
Promoting critical thinking and media literacy is crucial to distinguishing facts from propaganda and resisting efforts to manipulate emotions and beliefs.
It is also essential to address the underlying economic and social factors that fuel this trend and begin promoting policies that address inequality and insecurity are 🔑
The rise of anti-intellectualism poses a significant threat to American democracy and OUR way of life.
In this unprincipled time of machine reason and artificial enlightenment, it is imperative that WE take action in OUR own minds to combat this viral trend and reaffirm the values of knowledge, expertise and critical thinking that are essential to a healthy democracy.
Failure to do so risks not only the short circuiting of public trust, the spread of misinformation and the breakdown of democratic institutions, but also at stake, ungrounded yet electrified, digitized and entangled is YOUR sense of SELF and the mask you hide from behind in a digital society lacking humanity.
Therefore!
As a society WE MUST prioritize a path to our diversely dignified, intricately intertwined, future American nation, WE have in common, as Americans.
WORD TO THE HERD, Wake the heck up folks. NOW!
Through investments in education, encouraging scholarly pursuits, through technology, to promote media literacy and perhaps YOU’ll see, serendipitous as it may be, MY BOOK — YOU’re NOW reading .— rejects efforts to exploit fears and prejudices for political gain,🏌🏾♂️fore ⛳️ only by valuing knowledge and expertise can WE enjoy an American future — for ourselves and OUR fellow citizens.
For YOU see, modernity more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker and do remember, dear reader, ⚡️ them lights will be the first to be blown out — illuminating the looming dark dreams of conflict ⚠️
🧩 see Footnote 732 (pg. 1245) … folks these days don’t read books and are so easily confused.
For one must remember dear reader — My BOOK more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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