I hate AI, there, I said it. I cannot stand it. All of a fucking sudden, every fucking person is belting out bland, interchangeable, adjective heavy yet meaningless blabber on emails, assignments, online content, reels and even literally performance reviews and fucking personal messages.
Technology isnt the great equaliser, it is the ongoing and relentless mechanism which is dumbing down all of us - and the fucking em-dashes, I bet most folks cant even figure out how to type an em-dash on their keyboard. The human brain wasnt designed to be bombarded with this relentless and signifanctly varied stream of information packaged into mini sized chunks of reels.
Half an hour spent on scrolling reels and you will have watched and heard random assholes tell you that you have been eating banana wrong your whole life, learn and forget 10 new facts about the universe, see atleast 20 different sets of boobs, mandatorily be made to listen to the latest viral song, understand the fine art of photography, reinforced with your previously held political views and told that you are right and the other group/ religion / immigrants / nation / race / your loved ones are the red flags. At this point, all of us have seen and heard and listened to more than atleast our 5 previous generations combined would have experienced.
Haathi ka bacha paida hote hue bhi dekh lo, sab dekh lo. Kya mil kya raha hai? People are confusing knowing more shit with being wise. I remember the prayer that specifically asked for knowledge that is benefitial- ilman naafian, O Lord I seek knowledge that is of benefit. The "of benefit" part is the most pertinent part of that prayer because knowing how to do and i kid you not, exercises for your fucking face is in my very humble view NOT a knowledge that is going to be of benefit to the vast majority of people besides, I dont know, perhaps people who are cheekily challenged, the facially impaired, the weak lipped perhaps? No thanks random person on my instagram algorithm reel thingy.
Lord please protect my brain from myself, from filling it up with useless, random, stupid information that has no bearing on anything.
This is intellectual robbery - very soon people will not even remember what it felt to not know anything or to sit and contemplate anything because hey, why wait and sift through an idea and arrive at conclusions only to realise there are layers upon layers to any idea or narrative or previously held belief when you can not just google it, but ask AI to tailor the response to a question you have no idea about. " Explain to me like I am an idiot"
Aur waise bhi, who are we even kidding ? At this point in my life, even claiming to be right about something feels like waiting for the other shoe to drop and to be proven utterly and completely wrong about literally anything I dare punt my bet on. It's like the world exists and people exist and things and ideas exist just to show you how spectacularly ignorant and unbelievably incorrect I was in basically my whole perspective on how the world works.
I guess this is what they meant by "wisdom" of the old all along? Like you get to a point in your life where you are numbed down by constant fuckery thats happened to you that you just stop having strong or even opinions about anything at all and the only sliver of comfort is seeing all the young people around you strut around with their rigidness, biases and contrived sense of ambition masquerading as self assured individuals knowing that life is going to do a number on them and there is a certain pleasure in gloating on the oncoming trainwreck and the look on their stupid faces when no amount of facial exercises will undo the permanent look of bewilderiment that gets stamped on every human person as they traverse through time and space on this planet in due coarse.
Anyway, as incoherent posts go, this one has to be right up there with one of the finest works by yours truly and nothing like an abrupt end to this ode to fine penmanship than me ending it here for now.
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