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It seems that to many people, a truthful telling of history feels like treachery—and must be stamped out. But if those truths are stuffed back away, they will keep haunting us and keep reemerging in the Mirror World in distorted, twisted form.
It was the economist John Maynard Keynes who predicted that we could, through technological advances, all be working a 15-hour week, with more time for leisure and intellectual pursuits that could further humanity. Instead, we have found technological advances have been primarily used to force greater productivity from humans themselves and consolidate wealth, capital and resources into the hands of fewer and fewer individuals.
The Corrosive Effects of Social Media Must Warn Us About the AI Revolution Ahead
Kyle Taylor
As Old Media increasingly becomes subsumed into PR and the consumer report replaces the critical essay, some zones of cyberspace offer resistance to a ‘critical compression’ that is elsewhere depressingly pervasive.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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