Yep, I agree that the media (social and otherwise) playba big part as far as setting the tone goes and people tend to run with it out of stupidity, hubris, lack of anything else to do and for various other reasons. I wonder where it'll end up but in truth it's an evolving thing, and devolving also when it comes to a person's emotial intelligence and intelligence in general.
People don't need to think these days and so they do not. Why think when AI and someone else can take on that burden? Yep, fair enough until what's not used (the brain) devolves and then evolves into something different.
Humans are a plague upon themselves for so many reasons.
Add in the fact that we don't need to house, clothe, feed, protect or medicate ourselves anymore. We 'hire' others to provide for us. We no longer raise or educate our own children, as we're way to busy doing mindless things. We have machines to cook and clean for us, to take us where we want to go. Entertainment and information?....push the button. The industrial revolution was a grand idea and brought about many, many advancements, but it started the downward slide of humans...we are redundant now, not even needed to create new humans. Scary
Yep, well said and completely true. It's nuts how people so eagerly pass on axtions and opinions they should be doing/having for themselves. Not smart, but that's the direction it's heading more and more, the dumbing down of humanity.