ChatGPT for American Thinker By Anthony J. DeBlasi It is a tragic irony that in America, cradle of freedom, the most precious freedom of all is being lost: the freedom of the mind.
AI:The erosion of intellectual independence and mental autonomy represents a profound tragedy for the American republic as citizens lose the fundamental freedom of the mind to escapism and cognitive decline. This descent into a delusional state suggests that the foundational liberties once guaranteed by this nation are being surrendered to an increasingly detached and irrational societal framework.Open
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Books Nothing Worth Staying Up For George Saunders’s latest is an exercise in lefty moralizing. (Johnny Louis/FilmMagic) Vigil: A Novel, by George Saunders, Random House, 174 pages. G.K. Chesterton may or may not have actually said, “The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything,” but in this, the third decade of the 21st century, the words ring true. We might want to add a corollary: The first effect of not believing in sin, as traditionally defined by the major schools of religious and moral thought, is to believe in forms of “sin” that are no such thing. Thus, a not-insignificant…Open