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America used to be the land of "can do". We sent a man to the moon, we created DARPANET, we used to innovate and pioneer technologies and solutions that changed the world. Other countries would look to us for guidance. We were the (imperfect) beacon of democracy around the world.
Now we seem like the land of "that's too hard" and would rather tune out to the whims of some bullchit reality show about fictional people living in a fictional world that is heavily scripted and disconnected from reality.
America wastes too much time glorifying it's past while the future dries up. Our public schools are constantly d-mbed down so people continue passing and the states receive money.
Even in Silicon Valley, the so-called brain trusts are being misused. Talent is being used to develop the latest mobile apps to corrupt our attention spans or make our lives convenient. Meanwhile seasonal weather patterns continue to intensify, and there microplastics inside of oceans, our food, and us.
What good is convenience if you're slowly dying inside and our world is such a polluted hellscape full of consumers who would rather be distracted from reality by their phones than engage people in real life?