Doin' the Dorkville Polka
Have you heard of DAAAM?
Not the expletive misspelled, but a new system devised at MIT. (1)
It means Describe Anything, Anywhere, Anytime, at Any Moment. It is designed for robots, but sounds like a consumer's dream.
Isn't that the American dream? I want it now, immediately. That dream is fed by corporations in what I call the Dorkville Polka. If you don't do it, you'll rue it.
Buy! Buy more. Buy now. Upgrade. Refresh. Replace. Refurnish. Choose automatic renewal. Feed the ravenous consumer fraud machine. Make America profitable again.
The old rules are SO yesterday.
Try some debt. Be sure to bet. Will the Big Kahuna lose his temper? The betting window is open 24/7.
There is even a special choreography for wealthy spenders. Want the new, hot, about-to-appear car/technology/appliance? Only if you first buy the current badly received dud shunned by critics and consumers alike.
You don't want to be a wallflower, do you? What will your spouse say? Your neighbors? Your drinking buddies? Your kids?
Damn, that's a no-brainer.
As a caveat, MIT Technology also asks, "Can AI understand our world?" I'm not sure I can. The drumroll of buy buy buy, as expressed by Counterpunch, "lies in the world (Musk) helps create: a world in which algorithms replace judgment, cruelty becomes entertainment, racism is repackaged as realism, and democracy is hollowed out by spectacles of resentment and manufactured consent." The article demolishes the fable that the American Dream is anything but decimated.
The Dorkville Polka is looking more like a Danse Macabre.
c. Corinne Whitaker 2026 and always
(1) https://thenextweb.com/news/mit-daaam-robot-long-term-memory-objects
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