The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Human Mind Was Lobotomised Long Before AI How Media, Politics, and Commerce Broke Our Cognitive Abilities Dr. Mathew Maavak As generative artificial intelligence permeates every facet of modern life, a pervasive cultural anxiety has taken root, driven by the fear that AI is dumbing down the human mind. As a regular user of these tools, I find them profoundly helpful and largely disagree with this popular assertion. In fact, I have been pondering this phenomenon for years, and when I finally articulated it, AI speedily generated the peer-reviewed data which confirmed my suspicions. It must be stated right from the onset that there is indeed one undeniable downside to mass digitisation and AI usage, and it lies in the realm of mnemonic retention. When we continuously outsource our memory and recall to machines, our internal cognitive archives inevitably atrophy. Today, there are adults who have difficulty remembering their own car licence plates, much less the telephone numbers...

  The Assisted Suicide of the Nation Thoughts from the Shire Yes I know I am prone to exaggeration, that’s the fisherman in me. Yet the more I look around, not at one scandal, one policy, one migration wave, one economic betrayal, or one grotesque little episode of bureaucratic lunacy, but at the whole direction of travel that the UK/Ireland/Europe are on, the phrase begins to look less like exaggeration. The Assisted Suicide of the Nation Nations can die in many ways. They can be invaded, bankrupted, starved, conquered, corrupted, or simply exhausted by luxury, decadence and father time. But there is another kind of national death, stranger, and even more humiliating than all of the above: the death of a nation persuaded to cooperate in its own disappearance. Not beaten in a heroic last stand, not crushed beneath the boot of some foreign invader, but coaxed, shamed, bribed, distracted, indebted, censored, managed, and re-educated into believing that its own survival itself is vulg...