This past week, I asked Grok/AI to assemble a list of things having occurred since 2000....which don't make sense. I emphasize 'don't-make-sense'....it's a key term.
My list:
The Y2K panic: Billions spent preparing for a computer apocalypse that never happened, with people stockpiling supplies for nothing. Nothing made sense.
Enron scandal: A massive corporation hid billions in debt...never noticed by the federal gov't.....through various accounting tricks. At the peak? It wiped out employee retirements.
The 2000 presidential election....ended up decided by hanging chads and a Supreme Court ruling.
The entire invasion of Iraq was based on false claims of weapons of mass destruction. Almost none of the Bush-list of twenty-odd items ever proven true.
The Anthrax letters terrorizing the nation post-9/11...killed five....sparking a massive investigation that ended in the suspect's suicide (so we are told).
Hurricane Katrina response failures: Levees broke, thousands stranded, and government aid was disastrously slow. Oddly, the police force had to admit a minimum of 300 folks on the payroll...didn't really exist (as people).
2008 financial crisis: Banks bundled risky loans, crashed the economy, got bailed out, while millions lost homes. It appeared at some point....even the finance folks were mentality retarded (gifted as a mind of a 7-year old).
Around 2008-2012....pro-anorexia websites started promoting starvation as a lifestyle choice for teens. No one says much....just noting starvation in the 3rd world was unacceptable....while starvation in California was a worthy idea.
Abstinence-only sex education ignoring contraception, leading to higher teen pregnancy rates. The message....don't have protected sex....but unprotected is OK.
Flash mobs started turning into flash robberies, where crowds looted stores in minutes.
USA PATRIOT Act enabling mass surveillance without warrants.
Anna Nicole Smith's life story seemed bigger and bolder than life....then came death, amid tabloid frenzy and legal battles.
Britney Spears' whole public breakdown was mocked by media, leading to a controversial conservatorship....mostly with dad saying she was nuts.
Fabricated (fake) celebrity feuds like Britney vs. Christina became the way to sell magazines.
The rise of "fake news" dominating political discourse, eroding trust in media.
Social media algorithms started amplifying outrage and staging division for engagement.
QAnon conspiracy theories came out of thin-air....influencing politics and leading to real-world violence.
NFT boom occurred....where digital art sold for millions, then a month or two later....proven worthless, and crashed spectacularly.
Cancel culture extremes started up....where you committed one single minor 'sin'....past mistakes ruin careers overnight.
Pro-vax, and anti-vax movements started up....each with a push/halt brand.
Oddly in the spring of 2020....toilet paper hoarding in 2020 despite no actual shortage in production.
Student debt surpassing $1.7 trillion, burdening highly self-proclaimed 'Einsteins' with decades of poverty, without relief.
Oddly, the January 6 Capitol insurrection/riot occurs, with no one armed.
Technology is openly blamed...for spreading misinformation.
Political polarization starts to arrive around 2012-to-2015....where compromise is seen as weakness.
Healthcare costs skyrocket while universal coverage remains politically impossible.
