What began innocently enough with vapid vanity podcasts produced by bored affluent under 30s with careers as “influencers” in newsmedia, music or movies in mind has now imploded, splurged & spattered into all of our lives with a ludicrous and frankly UNLISTENABLE flood & orgy (beat that) of psychobabbling excerpts from Twentieth Century song, film & news bulletins: artificial disintelligence.

Although I am a professional 12/7/52 journalist – yes kiddies independent and unpaid and (gulp) not formally qualified – one of the hallmarks genuine historians of human culture repeatedly have noted, down the ages, is bullying coercive authoritarianism – so thanks, you idiots, Sergeant Plods, David Andersons and whoever might be “running” SBS, you may go now – I have not for three months listened to more than a minute at a time of radio or television news or news commentary produced in Australia. This puts a new light on junk time.¹

We are a society so taken with getting and spending that we appear to have forgotten to analyse ourselves or reflect on.. well, anything. To be brash discursive dismissive and.. well, mouth off at, other countries, other people, other ethnicities, other philosophical persuasions and, why the hell not, other skin-tones and the other primary gender as well are us.

I was listening to a cloying turgid kiddie chat from Boston last night purportedly about AI..Oh the poor old benighted You You You Essay – NO, Little Machine, not be-knighted..

In a world that now thanks to more than 50 years of Chicago School, MIT and @Harvard Programmed Learning ‘mind-fuck’ – technically Social Darwinism, historically dating especially from the 1930s USA child-cruelty “Psychology” and European #Fascist eugenics – is largely wracked, traumatised (terrorised, indeed) and more than half broken ecologically – we none of us may be content with a cultural diet of deracinated nonsense from turgid cloying dead-from-the-neck-up 20th century speeches, songs and movies that were mostly chewing gum for the eyes ears nose & throat in the first place. History mauls and trashes those who fool with it and totalitarian – or -aryan – patriarchy is not it, OK?

If you’d like a full-on dominant (if not hegemonic²) cultural explosion of human passion to witness – ‘local & live’ as the Old Era publicists would routinely spout – try the extraordinary explosion of football skills among young Australian sheilas in the last four short years.. And here we go, students, it is, yes, a furiously angry and powerful statement against mentally bereft old “business” men. Wheel out the @Yale rowing, er cricket, er Rugger theme-song ladies. Sociologists love this shit. It’s amazing.

Oh my dear Supply-siders , as I woke this morning I reflected I had not actually heard a single discussion on AI in Australia – or in USA newsmedia including the progressive Left/ Young @WBUR that was not also time-filler, wide-eyed, open-mouthed kids with their Christmas stockings consumer detritus.

“Should old people get a vote in the referendum? ..they won’t be around to see the consequences.”

“We’re dealing with the fragments of an idea here..” – a typically polite, non-confrontative, ‘gentlemanly’ South Australian in the post-fact domain of contemporary tendentious undergraduate Spite & Gotcha neo absurdist Australian public affairs.

Mother of Fork. How can we go on in this literally demented vein Australia? An unexamined life is alas and indeed very soon a dead body.

Well that’s me done for now. “Love” the smell of ideologic fascist putrefaction in the morning.

My non sarcastic & real love this morning is for the 16,000 immigration-scam people subject by degrees to virtual imprisonment, 24/ 7 coercion, forced labour and psycho- emotional torture. We’re told only 600 a year come forward for help. New South Wales police like it like that and after all is said and done “managing” blackfellas and non-‘white’ offshore-borns is their bag.

The “good” old NSW Labor Right and the Anglican Archdiocese of Sydney, we reflect.

John Blundell

Philosophy of Science Australia

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¹Consumer Alert: next comes the bit where you find to your dismay that you have indeed wasted your powers.

² Gramsci – can’t pull up the pic so here’s his Right-side Supply-side alter-ego idiot