In the past, only certain people had access to, or claimed to have access to knowledge and fed it to the masses.
Then we learned to read and figure stuff out on our own.
Now with AI and Big Tech, we’re going back to only certain people having access to knowledge (or claiming to have access to knowledge) and feeding it to the masses.
Sometimes it is not that they have the knowledge, but that they claim to have the knowledge in order to control people. For example, if I convince you that I know what a god wants you to do, and you believe me, I can control you.
When I was 10, my parents sent me to catholic school. I question everything I ever get told. So when these nuns told me that thunder was the sound of God bowling, and lightning was him taking flash photography of his perfect game, I had questions.
What catholics absolutely HATE is critical thinkers asking questions that expose their bullshit.
So I thought “If god has existed for thousands of years, and he always plays a perfect game of bowling, who is he trying to impress with a photo of a perfect game?”
And when I asked that question, I had to go to the principals office for being disruptive. I didn’t mean to be disruptive, and so I asked how I was being disruptive. Which got me in further trouble.
If someone stands up from the crowd and self-identifies as an expert on a specific topic, that person will be listened to as an expert.
Yeah, definitely. Legitimate or not (and probably more likely not), we’re going back to: What does god want me to do oh “wise”
AIpriest? I can’t think for myself.