The US is fucking cooked
I can’t help but think this is a phenomenon unique to the US where education has been completely devalued. If the only point of education is to fulfill a requirement to make more money then it makes sense to shortcut as much as possible.
The solution is of course no computer
People posting about the material conditions of their school time and how they can see why students would use AI doesn’t mean they agree with the usage of AI but that they empathize.
There’s another whoooole discussion to be had about how kids are introduced to food, how there are good foods and bad foods. Allowed and forbidden foods. Food used as punishment and as reward (you must eat everything on your plate before you get dessert). There is a reason why a lot of kids would pick chicken tenders 10/10 nights and it’s not them being stupid. That’s idealism. Looking at what material conditions leads to students cheating, not wanting to learn etc would be the materialist approach. Because kids are curious by nature but there is a systemic effort to force feed them what they’re supposed to learn killing that curiosity. Griping about that system is the opposite of idealism, it’s materialist.
I am incredibly cognizant about all of these things with my kids and expose them to a huge variety of foods, give them massive amounts of freedom to eat what they want, and generally cultivate a positive relationship with and understanding of eating. They will be dramatically less fucked up about food than 99.9% of people when they grow up. Hell, they’re already dramatically less fucked up about food than 99.9% of people, but right now they are still fucking stupid. It’s not idealism. On the other hand, the notion that if everything is exactly perfect then it will produce a still-unlikely outcome in every individual in a society is mainlining ideology.
Your words, not mine, never said “kids choose this because they’re stupid” chief