Do you feel the hustle? The anxiety? The quiet numbness? This isn't accidental. It's the design. In the finale of our Amusing Ourselves to Death series, we confront Postman's devastating truth: The greatest threat to your freedom isn't a physical tyrant—it's the soft tyranny of your own pleasure. We have become enslaved not by force, but by our own amusement. The episode opens with the story of an ordinary life that ends not in tragedy but in sedation—the slow drift into a life of pleasant co...
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Do you feel the hustle? The anxiety? The quiet numbness? This isn't accidental. It's the design. In the finale of our Amusing Ourselves to Death series, we confront Postman's devastating truth: The greatest threat to your freedom isn't a physical tyrant—it's the soft tyranny of your own pleasure. We have become enslaved not by force, but by our own amusement. The episode opens with the story of an ordinary life that ends not in tragedy but in sedation—the slow drift into a life of pleasant co...
#127: If AI’s Taking the Jobs, What’s the Point of a Degree?
Intellectual Freedom Podcast
34 minutes
2 months ago
#127: If AI’s Taking the Jobs, What’s the Point of a Degree?
If AI’s Replacing Jobs, What’s the Point of a Degree? That’s not clickbait—it’s the question millions of Gen Z students are silently asking. In this episode, Dr. David D. Hopkins takes a wrecking ball to the old college playbook and lays out what actually matters in the age of AI, automation, and algorithmic everything. If artificial intelligence is already doing entry-level work—from coding to copywriting—where does that leave new grads? And if a $100K diploma no longer guarantees a job… wh...
Intellectual Freedom Podcast
Do you feel the hustle? The anxiety? The quiet numbness? This isn't accidental. It's the design. In the finale of our Amusing Ourselves to Death series, we confront Postman's devastating truth: The greatest threat to your freedom isn't a physical tyrant—it's the soft tyranny of your own pleasure. We have become enslaved not by force, but by our own amusement. The episode opens with the story of an ordinary life that ends not in tragedy but in sedation—the slow drift into a life of pleasant co...
