Since my first year at this university (I am now in my third), I have never run for student government; instead, I have observed my classmates and friends do so with varying degrees of success. However, the entire campaign race felt more like a high-production publicity stunt rather than an actual election.
George Michael must have known something when he wrote,“You gotta have faith.” Because whether we like it or not, no matter what religion we believe in — if we do — we all need to believe that there is something out there watching over us, call it the universe, God, or the government.
In more than 250 cities around the world — from Mexico city to Tokyo, with the largest gathering in Athens, where more than 800.000 people flooded the Syntagma Square in front of the Parliament — Greeks protested and chanted the names of those who lost their lives in what was callously deemed “an accident.” The worst part? It was entirely preventable.
We have all heard about how AI is going to ‘steal our jobs’, but one of the main reasons we have come so far as a species is… well, because those robots did take over the world, in a sense.
It is very commonplace nowadays to blame capitalism for all our problems, but in this case it has robbed us of an internet created to feed our hunger for discovery.
