AI and the Dark Ages
By James Quillaan, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

The existing order is on its way out. When it is gone , AI will adjust. If  they don’t , we are ushering in the new dark ages. Cars are useless if their wheels are not touching the ground. The car must deal with stress in order to move forward. Humans operate the same way.

Given that passive learning is what is practiced in schools, AI will completely prevent them learning to concentrate. It will prevent all of society from thinking.

When thinking stops, forward progress stops and retrograde begins. Societal retrograde constitutes the new Dark Ages.

The Roman Empire did not disappear suddenly; It took from the second to the fourteenth century to completely fall. Thoughtfulness began declining in the United States in the 1890s as distraction in the form of commercial entertainment began emerging.

Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses. Juvenal (c. 100 AD.

Over the Twentieth Century , United States citizens began indulging in paid entertainment. My own grandmother, a child musical prodigy, at around 14 years, began playing piano at a silent movie theater. That ended with the introduction of talkies. Color movies followed and along came television, at first in black and white, then color.

Baseball was drawing huge crowds. College football came first. Then , professional football caught on. Recorded music developed after the invention of the radio. Finally, today we have MP3s, tiny listening devices. Now, AI can make music and movies.

As entertainment increased, thoughtfulness decreased. Now with AI, thinking is not necessary at all.