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The AI of Sauron.

But seriously, when most people see that their head of state has no moral standards whatsoever, they'll follow and drop their own standard even lower. It would be a similar situation if a bishop was openly a drunkard or if an army sergeant was a lazy drug addict.

They teach me to distrust literally everything that comes from the executive branch.
Trump seems to have an obsession with all things gold, so I guess even that "golden age" could simply be interpreted as "the Trump age".
I think at some point it would be more useful to talk about this and other behavior by this administration from a mental health perspective.
Henry Farrell nailed it in early 2018, calling this Philip K Dick's future, with the invasion of fake humans. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/henry-farrell-philip-k...

These people believe in nothing. They offer nothing. They detest that other people have these "virtues", more than smirking deceitful nonsense. Vengeful destruction of the world, letting their fakeness take over and ruin meaning: that's the revenge. Lovely recent short 2 min video, Ruminations on that DHS penguin tweet is succinct & to the point, on the weird suicidal Werner Hertzog penguin meme that has been making rounds, and how these memes so embrace anti-meaning. https://youtu.be/c7WqVx9x89s