AI Will Not Save the Planet and the Human Race

 The strains of Bing Crosby's voice are echoing through my living space.  Is this unusual?  Recently I purchased a box set of music sung by Bing.  In my study of American Roots music, the Blues, and Rock (since I grew up listening to and playing jazz), I missed Bing.  There is scant information about American Popular Music, because like America, the music industry was overtaken by a handful of corporate monopolies.  Once a diverse, prolific, and lucrative American industry, music was pigeon holed, castrated, and exploited.  The effects of Authoritarianism are specific, oppressive, and heinous.  They are anti Christian, Christian being followers of God and His son, Jesus, and their teachings.  These teachings embody empathy and respect for one's fellow man.  America no longer is Christian, and the exorcism of Christian doctrine began several decades ago.  With no oversight or regulation of moral or corporate activity, the propensity for corruption is great.  Americans, or what we think are Americans, have proven this.  The singular pursuit of wealth has brainwashed this faction of the human race.  Money may provide basic human comforts, but when the eye candy disappears what is left?  Not to sound sentimental, but love and community fill emotional and spiritual needs.  Millions of people voted a second time for Donald Trump, and they deserve an education.  As the soy bean farmers.  Trump doesn't care about you.  He used you.  It's like listening to Bing Crosby.  How is this sentimental, often romantic music relevant to extremism, violence, and ensuing war?  It's not.  The reasons why we are moving toward a war economy, is because those in power and not capable of anything else.  If we are not killing for our own gain, then what do we do?  The answer is engaging in emotional, spiritual, and creative activity.  This is called "The Arts."  It takes more to do this than raping and pillaging your neighbors.  Perhaps conquest is immediate satisfaction, but when you are by yourself waiting for the grim reaper you may ask yourself, "Where is the rest of it?"  The "rest of it" is what you gain from your own personal investment in others, other things, and other people.  The first time you gain happiness from helping someone else you will realize.  The human race as both an emotional and spiritual component, and while they will not provide shelter, food, or medicine they create security and serenity.  To know that you are not the only one suffering is important.  It's like listening to Bing.  You have to put your controller down or your iPhone, and trust that within the human race there are people that know you exist and care about you.  It's like Zen Buddhism.  If you sit for long enough in an empty cave with no stimulation, eventually your own soul will emerge and become active.  This is where America has missed the mark.  With ADHD we can't sit still long enough and in peace to allow this to happen.  We are overstimulated everyday by an unregulated corporate America.  It's no wonder that Hollywood film and television studios are a fraction of their former selves.  We are chasing the dragon.  If we drastically reduced this pollution and again concentrated on the human psyche, not AI, then it is possible we could rebuild America's greatness.  It will not come from artificial intelligence.  Eventually when the earth begins to fail and electricity is no longer available, the perspective will change.  Ask Native Americans.  They are a better model.