You're right, but the 'aging boomer' frame is an unhelpful and ageist shortcut. The real vulnerability isn't birth year, but the potent combination of contextual authority (a 'classified' briefing) and the universal power of visual evidence to short-circuit scepticism. The last 5 years has shown young people being just as susceptible to a psyop as anyone older.
The deeper, more disturbing idea is that our trust in official channels and our own eyes is being weaponised. The target isn't a generation; it's anyone in a position of power who can be shown something in a controlled environment where verification is impossible.
It doesn't work on young autistic white guys. Sorry not sorry.
It is a problem of age and people who grew up trusting everything they saw on a screen vs. people who grew up doubting everything they see on a screen.
People who grew up photoshoping and making videos inherently are less manipulable with video
There's a reason No phone scammers try to call 20-30 something young men pretending to be their grandparents.
We are ruled by 80 year olds world-wide who yearly prove there deep and unimaginable incompetent with technology whenever there's a congress hearing. If **ONE IN TEN** countries had a leader under 65, it maybe relevant to ask how genX identifies ai videos.
Boomers decided they were the last generation that mattered, they deserve all the criticism they get.
Every generation is ruled by the most venal and incompetent among us, those who think it's their deluded right (even mission) to lord it over the rest and to hell with anyone else. It is an eternal truth is that those who want to rule is that they tend to be psychopaths - no matter what age. That is just as true of Trump, Biden and von der Leyen as it is of Macron, Merz, Starmer, Meloni, Baerbock, Kallas, Ardern or any of the others of the next generation of "leaders" we have been saddled with. All have been selected for their money-grubbing self-ambition and reckless disregard for anyone other than the elite banksters and plutocrats who sponsor their ascent. Next generation will be no better.
You airnt listening, I don't see how it *could* be the next generation, in what way is biden training his 50 year old replacement in-between his moments of lucidity and the 50 year old nap times and baby sitting grand children.
Its going to collapse with the boomers dying, skip gen X, skip the majority of millennial's in their FUCKING 40's, and we'll see if *I'M* to old to pick up the pieces and straight up teenager warlords will design the next political era.
I've never operated a fax machine or punch card machine so I cant go operate the cold war era offices without any training. So when the boomers die, the system dies. Whatever is made will be made *without help* and by whoever has the energy to work 80 hour weeks and kill whoever ties to keep social security going an extra year.
Hunter is 55, he collects social security in 10 years, he probaly get his prostate exam; Biden became a Senior in 1972, even if you want to claim that political skill is in this blood line. Biden had 50 FUCKING YEARS TO LEARN THE SKILLS.
Don't moan, he'll do just a good a job as any of the others. It doesn't matter who is there or how smart/comatose/pretty/professional or whatever. The one's who own the system will have them doing exactly the job they have been paid to do – young, old or pretty much a corpse.
“Anyway the proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. "
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, letter to his son Christopher, dated 29 November 1943
Exactly! From lame propoganda public posting... Now imagine what all these Intel Agencies realized they could do to Representatives behind closed doors...
Before AI-generated video they had the ability to mislead decision makers with doctored photographs. And before that, forged documents or lying witnesses.
It's not the technology, it's the lack of prudent skepticism and reasoning ability in those who, perhaps more than anyone else, ought to possess that wisdom. But what we have is power-seekers and grifters who are all too willing to believe (or at least take advantage of) whatever suits their selfish interests.
You're right, but the 'aging boomer' frame is an unhelpful and ageist shortcut. The real vulnerability isn't birth year, but the potent combination of contextual authority (a 'classified' briefing) and the universal power of visual evidence to short-circuit scepticism. The last 5 years has shown young people being just as susceptible to a psyop as anyone older.
The deeper, more disturbing idea is that our trust in official channels and our own eyes is being weaponised. The target isn't a generation; it's anyone in a position of power who can be shown something in a controlled environment where verification is impossible.
It doesn't work on young autistic white guys. Sorry not sorry.
It is a problem of age and people who grew up trusting everything they saw on a screen vs. people who grew up doubting everything they see on a screen.
People who grew up photoshoping and making videos inherently are less manipulable with video
There's a reason No phone scammers try to call 20-30 something young men pretending to be their grandparents.
Do I have to say more than this? https://substack.com/@drwojakmd/note/c-159368196?r=46g4sj
We are ruled by 80 year olds world-wide who yearly prove there deep and unimaginable incompetent with technology whenever there's a congress hearing. If **ONE IN TEN** countries had a leader under 65, it maybe relevant to ask how genX identifies ai videos.
Boomers decided they were the last generation that mattered, they deserve all the criticism they get.
Every generation is ruled by the most venal and incompetent among us, those who think it's their deluded right (even mission) to lord it over the rest and to hell with anyone else. It is an eternal truth is that those who want to rule is that they tend to be psychopaths - no matter what age. That is just as true of Trump, Biden and von der Leyen as it is of Macron, Merz, Starmer, Meloni, Baerbock, Kallas, Ardern or any of the others of the next generation of "leaders" we have been saddled with. All have been selected for their money-grubbing self-ambition and reckless disregard for anyone other than the elite banksters and plutocrats who sponsor their ascent. Next generation will be no better.
You airnt listening, I don't see how it *could* be the next generation, in what way is biden training his 50 year old replacement in-between his moments of lucidity and the 50 year old nap times and baby sitting grand children.
Its going to collapse with the boomers dying, skip gen X, skip the majority of millennial's in their FUCKING 40's, and we'll see if *I'M* to old to pick up the pieces and straight up teenager warlords will design the next political era.
I've never operated a fax machine or punch card machine so I cant go operate the cold war era offices without any training. So when the boomers die, the system dies. Whatever is made will be made *without help* and by whoever has the energy to work 80 hour weeks and kill whoever ties to keep social security going an extra year.
They'll probably rehabilitate Hunter. Won't that be fun?
Hunter is 55, he collects social security in 10 years, he probaly get his prostate exam; Biden became a Senior in 1972, even if you want to claim that political skill is in this blood line. Biden had 50 FUCKING YEARS TO LEARN THE SKILLS.
Don't moan, he'll do just a good a job as any of the others. It doesn't matter who is there or how smart/comatose/pretty/professional or whatever. The one's who own the system will have them doing exactly the job they have been paid to do – young, old or pretty much a corpse.
“Anyway the proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. "
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, letter to his son Christopher, dated 29 November 1943
A representative literally thought a photoshopped Sam Hyde was a fighter ace lol
Exactly! From lame propoganda public posting... Now imagine what all these Intel Agencies realized they could do to Representatives behind closed doors...
Before AI-generated video they had the ability to mislead decision makers with doctored photographs. And before that, forged documents or lying witnesses.
It's not the technology, it's the lack of prudent skepticism and reasoning ability in those who, perhaps more than anyone else, ought to possess that wisdom. But what we have is power-seekers and grifters who are all too willing to believe (or at least take advantage of) whatever suits their selfish interests.