The results of being unaware of this goes beyond simple cultural ignorance. The USA offered rights, as written in The Bill of Rights, to mechanical plundering institutions. Institutions should not have the rights of individuals.
The Citizens United (really Institutions United) Supreme Court decision specifically offered the rights of man to institutions. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision stated that institutions could not be prohibited from political expenditures. In other words, institutions could spend whatever they wanted on whatever institutionalized politicians they like. Since then institutionalized political groups have supported their representatives with unlimited financial assistance. These are not the people's representatives rather institutionalized representatives. And we have all noticed the increased institutional representation often noted as spineless and uncooperative, but it is the institutions riding their back leading them.
The 2010 Citizens United decision gave the rights of human beings to mechanical institutions. The Bill of Rights was designed to be applicable to human beings, sovereign and yet united together. And it took less than 250 years to dismantle critical thinking to the point we collectively do not differentiate individuals and institutions nor the individuated and institutionalized. Today political organizations can manifest unlimited funds to support candidates, the philosophical equivalent of giving institutions the rights of individuals. The foundational logic stating that we should find a way to give machines rights of breathing beings is the abhorrent leap that promises more unthinking individuals and more data-oriented institutions. And all of this individual ignorance and institutional vigilance is leading to increased toleration of technocratic oligarchical collectivism.
There is a legend from Egypt about when language was first brought to life for the pharaoh by the scribe Thoth. One of the lessons from this mythology is a warning that the scribe offered to the pharaoh with the invention of writing: writing is an excellent tool, but it is also a way for the mind to become lazy and in this laziness there is potential to become mentally weak and useless.
Now apply that lesson to the innumerable helpful technological tools that indubitably enhance idea and discovery -for some- but also lead to an exponential potential for lazy and useless mentality. Now add AI and multiply more. How else can we measure this - in order to counter it? And how can we prove that The USA is a former superpower and show the way to regain exceptional status? How do we make The USA great again? And when we were great?
In the Colonial Era many people were restricted from learning how to read, slaves and women most notably. Literacy was still an elite skill even then. Some estimate that as few as 20% of people were literate. The literacy rates in The USA grew steadily for hundreds of years and by the 1930s as little as around 5% were illiterate and by around 1980 the literacy rate in The USA was around 99%. But since then, 0literacy rates, and thus comprehension levels, have steadily declined with remarkable decrease in the last decade or two, since around The Citizen's United ruling. Some estimate that around 20% of the USA has a comprehension level of a 5th grader today. And knowing this it is no wonder we can't tell machine from being anymore and will tolerate the idea that they are the same.
So, when was The USA Great? When literacy was prevalent and rising and in correspondence when liberty was expanded to more indiscriminately. This Is around the time when The USA won The Cold War, in part by just existing with better opportunity and broader fairness, not by war.
When did The USA lose any exemplary status it might have yet still had and became just another oligarchical institution? When Citizens United offered human rights to institutional tools.
If we do not read much we will comprehend less with greater difficulty and we will be lied to more easily. How do we become great again? Read. Raise your consciousness and read. Read with your kids. Read out loud alone and in front of others. Read to comprehend reality to become more useful to yourself and others. Read to save the world. The library will liberate us or we will be another example of Thoth's warning.
So you want to make The USA great again? Then read. Liberation is in liberty and liberty is in the library. Read and repeal Citizen's United ruling enabling oligarchical collectivism. Read nonfiction and repeal Citizen's United. Read and Repeal.
The Citizens United (really Institutions United) Supreme Court decision specifically offered the rights of man to institutions. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision stated that institutions could not be prohibited from political expenditures. In other words, institutions could spend whatever they wanted on whatever institutionalized politicians they like. Since then institutionalized political groups have supported their representatives with unlimited financial assistance. These are not the people's representatives rather institutionalized representatives. And we have all noticed the increased institutional representation often noted as spineless and uncooperative, but it is the institutions riding their back leading them.
The 2010 Citizens United decision gave the rights of human beings to mechanical institutions. The Bill of Rights was designed to be applicable to human beings, sovereign and yet united together. And it took less than 250 years to dismantle critical thinking to the point we collectively do not differentiate individuals and institutions nor the individuated and institutionalized. Today political organizations can manifest unlimited funds to support candidates, the philosophical equivalent of giving institutions the rights of individuals. The foundational logic stating that we should find a way to give machines rights of breathing beings is the abhorrent leap that promises more unthinking individuals and more data-oriented institutions. And all of this individual ignorance and institutional vigilance is leading to increased toleration of technocratic oligarchical collectivism.
There is a legend from Egypt about when language was first brought to life for the pharaoh by the scribe Thoth. One of the lessons from this mythology is a warning that the scribe offered to the pharaoh with the invention of writing: writing is an excellent tool, but it is also a way for the mind to become lazy and in this laziness there is potential to become mentally weak and useless.
Now apply that lesson to the innumerable helpful technological tools that indubitably enhance idea and discovery -for some- but also lead to an exponential potential for lazy and useless mentality. Now add AI and multiply more. How else can we measure this - in order to counter it? And how can we prove that The USA is a former superpower and show the way to regain exceptional status? How do we make The USA great again? And when we were great?
In the Colonial Era many people were restricted from learning how to read, slaves and women most notably. Literacy was still an elite skill even then. Some estimate that as few as 20% of people were literate. The literacy rates in The USA grew steadily for hundreds of years and by the 1930s as little as around 5% were illiterate and by around 1980 the literacy rate in The USA was around 99%. But since then, 0literacy rates, and thus comprehension levels, have steadily declined with remarkable decrease in the last decade or two, since around The Citizen's United ruling. Some estimate that around 20% of the USA has a comprehension level of a 5th grader today. And knowing this it is no wonder we can't tell machine from being anymore and will tolerate the idea that they are the same.
So, when was The USA Great? When literacy was prevalent and rising and in correspondence when liberty was expanded to more indiscriminately. This Is around the time when The USA won The Cold War, in part by just existing with better opportunity and broader fairness, not by war.
When did The USA lose any exemplary status it might have yet still had and became just another oligarchical institution? When Citizens United offered human rights to institutional tools.
If we do not read much we will comprehend less with greater difficulty and we will be lied to more easily. How do we become great again? Read. Raise your consciousness and read. Read with your kids. Read out loud alone and in front of others. Read to comprehend reality to become more useful to yourself and others. Read to save the world. The library will liberate us or we will be another example of Thoth's warning.
So you want to make The USA great again? Then read. Liberation is in liberty and liberty is in the library. Read and repeal Citizen's United ruling enabling oligarchical collectivism. Read nonfiction and repeal Citizen's United. Read and Repeal.
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