[exceptione]

  > So it will get much worse before Americans finally read a book and figure out we should maybe do something different.

You better forget about the books. Don't count on the media either; the abolishment of the fairness doctrine and financial incentives via corporate ownership can and will distort reality in a strata-optimized way. Social media is overrun by bots and influence ops as we speak. New threat: people will ask their LLM. Journalists will source their LLM. Next question: Who trains the LLM?¹

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia

[zingababba]

You're absolutely right, we are all being brainwashed in real time. How does this make you feel?