On “Literature Aloud” Monday-Thursday @ 4pm only on WRWK

Ironically, I’ll be using this voice-to-text AI to express my serious reservations about AI and about our collective digital privacy in a time of decreased regulation and increased policing.

Unfortunately, after centuries of successful (if laborious and messy) democracy, there seems to be a a strange turn to authoritarianism around the world, and in many places a tyranny lobbied, and paid for by billionaires.

In this context AI seems particularly menacing, and rather than being the panacea or taking on a will of its own it is most likely to be used by those who would dictate our submission to their insatiable greed. And as we have grown so fond of our phones, most of us barely able to put them down, it will be an easy task to monitor and control us.

Nevertheless, I remain hopeful …

To those volunteers who joined us on the courthouse lawn on Hull street (and to those who have served for years) TheWorkFM says…

Few words capture the kind of human progress that got us to 2025 like the Fword.

The middle finger comes close but is just one nuance of the irresistible human passions that got us to this moment .

Love, promise, string along and betray. That’s politics in a decaying nation. But we cannot break the cycle by F*ing those who got us here. We have to Break their Spell with a Bigger Spell. Maybe the one that got Humans to believe in the 250 year old experiment in human self management: the USA. Was it fear of the French Revolution, the pomposity of King George or pursing something better and still possible, something at least we had the words for. Something aspirational.

We are in the last chapter of the American experiment where democracy was dangled before us but always kept out of reach by ever clever distractions. Now power brokers hope to use social media and AI to stuff us all into their designer cult woven out of popular myths. Not unlike the Romans did by building temples to all the gods of the captured populations. After all it has been working.

But in the end Mother nature will have its way and discipline us all. The only question is how many innocent people and other life forms will pay for the lies of grifters who keep the dead end system going?

Some people, reflecting on the countless hours spent on their care choose to pay it ahead.

Some choose to remain children, denying their agency and their cost to the world. Pity to die unaware of ones meaning.

In RVA, Let’s look for the possible, the Something More that distinguishes us from chimpanzees with language and clothes.

Let’s un-F* the world, one aware person at a time and restore the cooperative system that made all these neat things we have possible, and this time lets leave space for the other people and life forms that were here when we arrived.

Cooperation is our super power. Let’s joyfully push back on all the dehumanizing crap at every level.

Be angry if it helps but don’t get lost it. That’s their game.

Life should be full of joy, but we have to create it.

Let’s!

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