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    1 month ago

    Maybe, but the starting point is not the same. Now, information travels superfast compared to centuries ago. Governments could keep up, … now they lag behind and keep up.

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      1 month ago

      information does travel faster, but it’s more selective than ever – most americans aren’t even aware of the staggering amounts of propaganda they’re swallowing that is actively fostering this type of mass societal regression despite it being publicly available to them through things like the epstein files and the freedom of information act.

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        Social media is making western societies dumb and lazy. I realised this even more when I read that TikTok was developed for the westerners, despite it being a chinese product. I thought it had been deveoped in China for the Chinese and it later spilled into the west.

        Social media and AI are valuble tools and can help improve society. Federated systems like Lemmy are an example. But humans are driven by profit and convienence so it’s inevitable that the worse of social media ans AI make the headlines. Profit and convienence: these are the root causes that will drive humanity to extinction.