XPost: alt.atheism   
   From: lumin@etherlight.link   
      
   JTEM  writes:   
      
   > THEY CAN'T BOTH BE RIGHT!   
      
           As an  outside observer, from a  country far   
     culturally from the US and  the West in general, I   
     am tempted to say perhaps  both are.  All sides of   
     US politics seem insane to  me.  If so, then maybe   
     the issue is  not that anyone is  insane, but that   
     the meta-game itself went insane.  The environment   
     everyone lives in is going insane, the collective,   
     the whole.  It seems to me that this is, more of a   
     "Tower of  Babel" situation, where  people slowly,   
     gradually,  are losing  the ability  to understand   
     each other, to talk,  to reach and communicate and   
     comprehend.  Language  itself as  a human  tool is   
     breaking  down, and  so  everything everyone  says   
     everywhere sounds insane.   
      
           Things said  by a  leftest, when  reaching a   
     left-supporter, are  viewed and understood  from a   
     perspective  that is  completely alien  to someone   
     from the right, and vice-versa.  This is not going   
     to remain  a left-right thing.  The  western world   
     is splitting  even further;  within the  left some   
     leftists  think other  leftest people  are insane,   
     and within the right some right people think other   
     right people are  insane.  The two-poles phenomena   
     is just a side-effect of US elections being set up   
     to encourage  two-party standoffs.  But  this wall   
     will likely  not hold long; we  are already seeing   
     it breaking down.   
      
           I suspect these phenomena  are driven by the   
     sudden introduction of hyper-connectivity to human   
     societies.  Countries that  are more connected are   
     the ones experiencing  more such phenomena.  Other   
     countries are  probably going to have  to face the   
     same issues as they catch up more on connectivity,   
     and build more cross-ties  into the global "neural   
     system" of the planet.   
      
           Whatever is happening, taken to the extreme,   
     will end up with islands  of ones, all over; every   
     single person  will think  that everyone  else are   
     all insane.   Modern "AI" LLMs are  probably going   
     to push us further towards that extreme, as people   
     get more  and more  reinforcement for each  one of   
     their fringe ideas in an echo-chamber of one.   
      
     But what do I know.  This world is too mysterious.   
      
      
   Best Regards,   
   Lumin Etherlight   
      
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