I just heard the stupidest thing the other day, that people don't have time to read novels anymore, relying instead on "book summaries" sold on Amazon, with such titles as "50 Books You Don't Have Time to Read, Briefly Summarized."
And we all know that people don't have time to write anymore (and when I say WRITE I mean write from SCRATCH, which actually requires you to USE your brain), relying instead on ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot to "produce" "content" for them.
People don't have time to philosophize about life, they don't have time to study history (and so, naturally, they are doomed to repeat the same mistakes), they don't have time to learn a new language, they think that making art and literature and music is useless.
They don't care that teachers who actually teach you how to think are going to lose their jobs. They don't realize that everyone is going to lose their jobs anyway because of artificial intelligence -- and that replacing GE subjects with something that will make them more "employable" is actually bullshit -- thanks to the shortsighted idiots who actually spent a lot of time and energy creating these Gen AI agents that are now eventually replacing them.
Sure, feeding the capitalist system with more corporate drones who can't think for themselves and are only good for "training" AI and writing prompts is just what the doctor ordered.
We have the Commission on Higher Education to thank for that.
