You take away the arts. You take away the libraries. You take away novels and all you end up with is a world plagued by anger, anxiety and apathy. A very dangerous world of atomised individuals with Gatsbyian obsessions.
Excellent writing by about the tipping point where we start serving the machines. Great to see reference to the brilliant Neil Postman.
When there is a large system problem (climate heating, species extinction, government corruption, etc.), individuals can do NOTHING to fix it.
Sometimes, very large groups and institutions have some degree of leverage in the system, but they usually fail to pull the right lever at the right place at the right time.
No wonder so many people are angry and despairing of “things” getting better!