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.
It ain’t AI, that’s just an accelerant. Conservatives have been hammering away at education for decades. The devaluation of expertise and intelligence as a primary goal goes back decades.
Trump is the guy who says out loud, finally, what we’ve known all along. They love the uneducated. They didn’t have to ban the books, in the end. They just had to tell us they were worthless and that our opinions were equally as valid.