Here is a poem Renee Good, under her earlier name Renee Macklin, wrote, "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs." It won a prize. It's really good. "it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge." poets.org/2020-on-lear...

As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.

Foucault/Derrida by any chance?

Condemning good-faith ideas from people who are opposed to those who are the source of the problem is not good allyship. It doesn’t help a cause to alienate those who support the cause.

It’s not about dismantling your allies. Or is it?

I like your suggestions, Ellen. Don’t understand the blowback. We’ll have a better chance of succeeding when we support our obvious allies, not chastise them for not quite measuring up to some ideological purity test. In fact, aren’t ideological purity tests are a big part of the original problem?

Relevant examples, undermined by the ad hominem. It almost sounds like Stephen King is the one banning books. He is not. Whatever points might have been scored against him mean absolutely nothing to the actual enemies of free speech. (Like me, Mr. King is your inherent ALLY in this cause.)