Friday, May 30, 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Real Stupidity

 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND REAL STUPIDITY

Look into the hearts of humanity and tremble. 

Look into your own heart and flee.

It is all the same, this history, a panoply of  beliefs pitting one against another,

beliefs wielded like a sword,

the caustic leaders certainly not subscribing to such silly beliefs,

but adept at wielding them.

Beliefs,

unite the mob behind a belief,

stoke the madness,

lay claim to the power.

So it has been, and remains.

Evolution lurched to a halt upon the appearance of the human being, evolution rolling up against the rock of self-awareness that henceforth refused to entertain any change to what clearly is its own perfection.

But it is a momentary halt, a transitory barrier, the very storms unleashed by the selfish predilections of this overly self-aware species summoning its own demise.

A last great spasm of religious fervor, mixed with the toxic effluent of nationalism, is beginning its malevolent march across the planet, fueled by the usual cynical panoply of miscreants and sociopaths.  

Wealth and power will drive the leaders,

feeding the mobs’ fear and blind hatred.

Carefully cultivated ignorance and insecurity will drive the mobs.

Artificial intelligence will be no match for real stupidity.

Distributed networks will wither when fiber optics succumb to pitch-fork and torch.

Look into the hearts of humanity,

while still conveniently able to observe through your glowing screens,

before the banging on your door demands you join or die.

  Copyright 2025 Don Ray