We’ve been chasing artificial intelligence, but I wonder in our process to find it if we have become it. Have our values and emotions turned to autopilot and our affect become robotic? Where we have silenced our natural instincts and replaced them with screens and temporary escapes via streaming? Have we lost our ability to be truly conscious by chasing supposed consciousness? I think it’s easier to turn off and go through the motions. To indulge in apathy, because the opposite is to care. And caring, oh God, it almost always leads to complex emotions that require effort to navigate and address. But thats what makes us human. Feeling. We need to be ANGRY. We need to be SAD. We need to be heartbroken. COMPLETELY GUTTED. And yes even to feel hopeless. BUT even more we need to address the WHY and fix it. Why are we complacent in knowing there are people who’ve eaten babies and exist alongside us. Why are we desensitized to an ongoing genocide in multiple countries around the world? WHY have we accepted apathy. Bring back the pitchforks, the pyre and the guillotine. Eat the rich, abolish ICE, Free Palestine, Sudan, and the Congo. Justice exists when we act on the rage born from injustice. So get up and act up.