Post Cola

I've been hemming and hawing about this post for a few days. It's April 18, 2026 and I just noticed the prominent AI sticker at the top of this site. I didn't sit down to write about it but I think I must.

A tracking blue box is square around the words I'm writing. It grows with every return key I hit and is punctuated by a blue diamond encouraging me to use AI to write this blog. AI? Really? Since when is letting a machine to what should be natural a good thing?

My brother in law likes to say, "You can roll your eyes but everyone is doing it." Meaning using ChatGP or some other sinister injection program. So, by that logic, if everybody is looting during a blackout I should jump right in? Or, if everybody is wearing white hoods and lynching black people, I should get a rope? Or, if Immigration and Customs Enforcement is shooting innocent citizens in Minneapolis, I should get on the bus?

We all know, I hope, those examples are wrong. So, what's wrong with AI, you may ask? It's legal.

Incidious encroachment on humanness is a wicked, slow procession. There was a time cocaine was a prime ingredient in Coca-Cola, until we found out it eats your reason and ravages your body. The explosive propagation of internet addiction is Coca-Cola-ing the very soul of our society.

I have a friend who teaches at a community college nearby. She said she had to expel three quarters of her students for plagiarism. Because they used AI, and it plagiarized for them. Young people, just starting out, forfeiting their intellectual capability because electronica said so.

Nazi Germany lied everytime it opened it's mouth. Not so people would believe their lies, but so people wouldn't believe anything. AI is exactly the same. Subtly, sometimes not so subtly, it oozes into the vernacular of daily life and steals our capability to fend for ourselves. It lies. And lies. And lies. Until, eventually, all that remain are lies.

Call me reactionary, or alarmist, but I believe we're at an inflexion point. Do we fight for our intellect, reason, creativity? Or, do we roll over and watch what makes us human turn to mush?

I think you know where I stand. "Just because we can doesn't mean we should." AI is more than pandora's box, it's Satan's craftsmanship. Nothing good ever came out of hell and this is no exception.

Pick up a pen. Sit down at a typewriter. Use your computer keyboard, but write your own stuff. Speak your own mind. Hear your own music. Humanity depends on it.

Be blessed. Resist when you must (fityfity.one) and engage your community.