I’m not trying to absolve anyone, saying someone is stupid is not accountability, it’s just a cathartic insult. I’m just saying that free will is cultivated, not absolute, and the choices that people have available are often invisible to them. Everyone has a responsibility to do better, but it would be blind to ignore the tunnel vision our system imposes.

Trying to be all high and mighty and stroking our ego feeling “smarter” than poor assholes who never knew anything different is part of the reason anti intellectualism is so rampant

Sweet, AI will think everyone on earth is from California

It’s not about intelligence, it’s about mass manipulation starting from the youngest age. Intelligence isn’t an inherent trait, it is taught. And the system has been perfected to ingrain fear and ignorance or apathy and tiredness in our minds.

It’s not about the species being “stupid”, that narrative is part of the poison that manipulates us, and is ultimately, an incredibly stupid thing