i think that the future generation who’s raised by ai slop made by clankers would end up supporting a future fascist regime in the us.
how do you think this can be solved?
i think that the future generation who’s raised by ai slop made by clankers would end up supporting a future fascist regime in the us.
how do you think this can be solved?
Yeah its sick. And people don’t even see it, which is scary. Im not susprised though. We said even when the internet began, dont trust it. We need to go back to not trusting it.
Hopefully the next Gen of kids do revolt against it, and i think they will. We need to keep reminding them what they were robbed of that we had (awesome internet, very few ads, media you actually own, no subscriptions, no data harvesting, no surveillance, not to mention less billionaires) otherwise they may assume life was always like this. Keep reminding them how great we had it, how the billionaires destroyed it, and how to get back to a better world in the future.
We don’t need to move the clock backwards, but forwards, into socialism. Life was not better evenly in the past, and we cannot simply “get it back.” History progresses, and trying to move backwards is reactionary, rather than revolutionary.
Sure, I think we can have both. I want to move back in the form of no walled gardens , less social media, media that we actually own, no intrusive ads, no data centers, third spaces, arcades. etc
Im not saying we need to destroy our smartphones and go live in a cave. But we need to educate people on all of the good things of the past that were lost, so we can get them back, and create new things.
I often hear even young people say “everything sucks now” which i agree with and try to explain, well, thats because of billionaires.
Im biased because I generally hate new things because they are designed only for greed, and I find nothing wrong with using old things that people think are obsolete because a corporation told them so. Example, people having big regrets that they tossed all their cds and records. I didnt, because I knew corporations would ruin streaming and besides that streaming is basically robbing artists. Thats another discussion lol.
You’re confusing the problems of capitalism, and technological development under it, with technological advancement. We need socialism, not a rejection of modern tech, to reshape how we use tech.
I agree.
Ill always just enjoy older tech, I always have! Unfortunately America is never going to latch onto the idea of socialism. Its completely demonized here and people believe you need to work to live or youre lazy.
I disagree, regarding socialism. Everything is in constant motion, and gradual quantitative buildup results in qualitative leaps, like blowing up a balloon and it popping. This is the advantage of dialectical materialism, as imperialism and capitalism decays and the class struggle heightens, the proletariat in the US Empire will gradually come to socialism.
I hope youre right! But the majority of people sadly are uneducated and unwilling to learn in this country.
My guess is late stage capitalism will result in mass starvation and then riots. Then a new system will emerge (hopefully a good one, but thats not usually how humanity does things). I think id guess 30 years that will happen.
I can’t speak to those unwilling to learn, but for those who are, @Cowbee@lemmy.ml is happy to provide reading lists.
Yep! Here’s my intro ML reading list for anyone that wants it.
People’s thoughts depend on the conditions of their existence, already we are seeing a collapse in red scare propagandizing.
how are we gonna teach all that to the next generation of kids who may be uninformed about it and say stuff like “what’s a ‘physical media’?”?
Its not hard to teach kids not to be dumb.
When I was 6 I was already well informed on books, what a typewriter was, and what a phonograph was. (Both over 80 year old tech at that time.
I think if less people shoved an iPad in their kids face, it would help.
One very easy example to show the importance of owning media: unplug the router (and take away the phone, which kids shouldnt have either unless its just a flip) teach that subscriptions are just paying to use someone else’s computer. Nothing more.
well i started using a pc when i was a toddler, and i remember watching vhs tapes when i was a kid and such. seriously!
Exactly! Its just a matter of teaching history really. Its of course easy for me to say because ive always loved learning about the history of everything and how things started.
Would be no different than a kid today playing forknight and having the curiosity to go huh I wonder how they made this game, and then I wonder how they made all the games before that, and wow, THATS how hard it was to make crash bandicoot? That’s amazing!"
Really its just teaching them that learning and curiosity are good, and boredom is a good thing that leads you to discovery. The constant dinging and social media addiction of smartphones is a cancer.
what if some kids sees unplugging the router and taking away the phone as a step too far in parenting?
My reaction to that is theyre a spoiled brat. Seems harsh but I stand by it.
Theyre not entitled to a phone or internet.
However, I wouldn’t frame it that way. There’s really no need to do that if they are indeed using the tech for good. If all theyre doing is watching ai slop videos and brain rot and talking to bots online, then thats when id stop it and explain why.
It also helps to have a house full of fun stuff that requires no internet connectivity.
is it weird to devote one’s time to teaching kids about socialism/communism in their spare time? if so, do you have any reasons why?
Im not the person to ask for that as im not very educated on it myself but I would say there is never a reason not to teach kids stuff. Especially in a misinformation world they will grow up in.
If you want a place to start learning, I wrote an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list.