Western society has become a hollowed-out shell of communal life, where AI chatbots act as digital opioids providing addictive facsimiles of human relationships. These are symptoms of societal collapse, where atomization drives the masses to seek solace in algorithms.
Very good but too long article for my taste. I had to give up at 75% roughly.
Maybe a marxist analysis comes at the end. If not, it is obvious for any marxist that this is a plot and society is diseducated enough to fall for it.
My personal suggestion: torch it (aka move to china or another socialist country and maybe write some western articles to influence people from outside while living in a bearable situation.)
It’s the Atlantic, don’t hold your breath waiting for any dialectics.