[dandelo1953]

Just want to say I cannot agree with these sentiments more.

Google turned a seemingly benign industry into something people now regularly refer to as "weaponized" messaging.

The pen is mightier than the sword. The spoken word is mightier than both. We need to relearn how to talk to one another instead of relying on what used to be a useful heuristic shortcut in our day to day life.

We got drunk on the convenience of industry automating massaging before we even realized tech would lead to automation could scale at such exponential rates.

Our linear thinking in 3d space time is not able to keep up with all the degrees of separation in play anymore.

Marketing is a joke and everyone knows it. This is the real industry that is "too big to fail". And that they pinned it on the penultimate boogey man (aka money) is just more fuel to that fire.