The cope is loud and desperate. Data center moguls keep pushing this fiction: China is running a psyop to turn Gen Z and Alpha against AI. 🙄
Nah. That's not a conspiracy. That's deflection. America did this to itself by gutting public education and replacing curiosity with compliance. You can't outsource critical thinking to a mental firewall.
WhatTheVek's video is the autopsy. Watch recent Pennsylvania high school graduates struggle with basic intellectual tasks. I've seen the same rot in Texas. It's not regional. It's systemic. If I were hiring right now, I'd be terrified, not of AI, but of the generation that grew up in a system designed to produce obedient workers, not thinkers. P.S. When I went to school, silhouette was a 3rd grade vocab word.
Somewhere, an old man from the Boomer generation went to his grave satisfied. His plan worked. American schools now churn out compliant, intellectually hollow drones. No agency. No fire. No independent thought. Perfect for an assembly line. For AI, a technology that punishes illiteracy in real time? Fatal. AI doesn't replace thinking, but it will expose the lack of it.
They didn't just ruin two generations because of bad test-prep culture. They created a cascading failure caused by a system that punishes skepticism. You can't have a technological renaissance with a workforce that never learned how to ask why. You can't build a future on a foundation of multiple-choice memorization and zero-sum obedience.
Fixing it means the machine has to eat itself. America will have to completely overhaul its public education system to pick up the pieces. Good luck with that.