Among everything else, it does feel particularly dark that civilisations that still care about arts and craft, that still venerate poets, are being systematically targeted and wiped out by forces that are largely driven by the ugliest of excesses
This is why you can’t bring back Y2K. It starts with big ass jeans and clipart, but the next thing you know the government wants to invade the Middle East for WMDs.
I watched LiveLeak videos when I was a kid, and I somehow ended up significantly more cognitively intact than kids raised on algorithmic slop. TikTok is unironically worse for the developing mind than ISIS beheadings
As I've been saying, if you willingly relinquish your mental abilities, you will lose them. The fact that millions of people seem eager to give up their intellects, to be freed from the burden of ever having to think or create, is a nightmare out of our darkest science fictions.