AMERICA 2023: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / AUTHENTIC STUPIDITY / TIME TO HIT THE HISTORY BOOKS AMERICA!
Vol. II | Issue. 157 | April 10, 2023
The purpose of meaningful writing is to enlighten, educate, inspire, stimulate, and entertain. Most writing falls short in at least one of these categories. If all 5 of these elements are present, you may have a hit on your hands. Accordingly, Conservative Clarity (CC) strives in that direction. At times, the thrust of these essays appears to be intensely negative about the state of America. In that regard, it is never CC’s intention to depress the reader but to enlighten and inspire them to effectuate things that are actionable in order to create significant positive change in the status quo.
America in 2023 is at an inflection point as to how and where we go from here. In simple terms, that means that we can go either way. Will we remain the World's Leading Superpower, i.e. the Indispensable Nation on the World Stage, but for whose leadership the World Order will switch to the dystopian, tyrannical hegemony of Communist China? There is much writing on the wall that indicates that it is too late. China has already surpassed the U.S. in so many vital categories and metrics of global influence that it may already be a stretch to claim that the U.S. is the World's Most Powerful Nation. Recently, there are scary indications that we are in the early stages of losing the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency given mega-petro and trade deals that China has recently made with Brazil and Saudi Arabia using the Chinese Yuan as the currency in those trades. Should that happen, the U.S. may become another more populated version of the UK, with essentially no meaningful influence on the World Stage. Sadly, most Americans haven't woken up to the reality of what may be the imminent and tragic loss of our freedom, prosperity, and yes, the power and unique status of American citizenship that we have enjoyed for the entire post-WWII era.
For much of the post-war era, there has been a national consensus of cohesive bonds of pride in American exceptionalism. As a nation, most Americans have agreed with a national appreciation that America is unique, not only in the world that it occupies today, but unique in all of world history regarding the potential for opportunity and personal freedom, as well as national security guarantees regarding freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and the general common welfare of its citizens. After six decades (see The American Way) of being taught to hate itself by the Left in the American Classroom, it is a challenge for even the most patriotic Americans to feel that way. Collectively, America has become a historically ignorant country.
However, there is good news because there is a cure…
Lately, we have read much about "Artificial Intelligence" and the frightening reality that we face if this technology leviathan is not harnessed, managed, and controlled. It is unlikely that once A.I. becomes widely deployed in our everyday lives that there will be any meaningful control over where it goes, the extent of its reach into our lives, and the loss of control that we will have regarding decision-making on any level of our lives without the direct and indirect influence of A.I. at every level of human functionality.
Nevertheless, while A.I. takes off and the erasure of American history continues down the Orwellian path of destroying all memory and access to American greatness and exceptionalism, we can and should avoid the continued erasure of American History by dusting off those old history books to immerse ourselves into the greatness that made America the light into the world.
Let's all go low-tech to make certain that Artificial Intelligence does not force us into a permanent state of authentic stupidity. In other words people…. It’s time to dust off the history books and turn off the computer.
-Emes