• Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Things like this are causing real dissonance for me. We’ve got people doing amazing, important, next-level development - alongside our Idiocracy slide. If it was just doom on the horizon, I feel like things would be simpler to process. I guess that kind of thinking gives rise to accelerationism.

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      3 days ago

      Or maybe it’s just like everything else: not really dumbing down but oozing like pus out to the extremes. We caught a severe case of idiocy, because we didn’t think we needed to vaccinate for that and scientific progress continues ever faster, but where did mediocre, adequate or common sense go?

      Just like so many new gig or service sector jobs paying close to minimum and record pay for tech workers, but where did the middle class go?

      Or like politics which seems to be a blood sport now but where are actual undecideds who will find out actual facts and care who they vote for