Permit me to possibly wear some form of a tinfoil hat for a second -- and I hope I don't sound too out there.
I was thinking about this recently. A friend of mine asked me how the world got this way, and by that he meant so distrustful of, like, science, and technology, and medical professionals. Maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but there was a point where Albert Einstein was this guiding light towards a smarter, better, brighter future. He was cool.
And in medicine, in technology, in science, he's been replaced by people who are here for a fast buck. "Silicon Valley" was supposed to provide the answers to all of our questions, and what did it give us?
Teslas that are falling apart on the road, made by people who are instructed to ignore the problem, as they barrel through pedestrians and children on the regular.
A global surveillance state where everybody willingly covers their homes in cameras because "it's the future and we should be able to do that." Why? Because they're afraid of their own (harmless, probably even friendly) neighbors. That same camera network will be used against them in a court of law if it ever comes to that, because you don't even own your own safety anymore.
People have been railing against "big pharma" probably since Albert Einstein was barely even six feet in the ground. Whole entire sub-industries have sprung up to help untangle the borderline-illegal things some hospitals and doctors claim on your bill to squeeze another $1500 out of your bank account.
Elon Musk, "our generation's Tony Stark", is nothing more than a rich 10 year old begging for your attention. When he detects you're getting bored, he starts pulling up the carpet under your feet. He's captain of a ship full of tech bros hawking a vision of the future that does not actually help anyone and is mainly designed to separate the gullible from their money.
Even John Carmack, once the patron saint of ushering in the age of affordable, usable Virtual Reality, attends "anti-woke" conventions where he's apparently been the guest of honor multiple years in a row and says he had "a lot of fun."
Every institution designed to take care of us and provide us with a better future has been flooded with snakes selling their own oil and money has the loudest voice against stopping them. It means nobody trusts anything anymore.
Silicon Valley is only but the first thing that needs to implode.
