The Middle Finger Society - 01 - Do ants understand the universe?

I love quiz challenges. Endless hours of contemptible topic choices and arguments over answers. Quiz nights before Google could start civil wars and violent protests at the Methodist Church Community Hall from mismatched source material or the fact the public library in my home town only held one copy of Thompsons International Annual and a billion copies of the Guinness Book of World Records and for some insane decision the local Quizzical Society, that was their official title, overuled every dispute favoring the Thompons International Annual as being factually correct when when absolutely nobody in town could ever see the damn book because it was on permanent loan to the Quizzical Society loonies and they would not share. Online quiz taking of today triggers my PTSD however I recently braved the traumatizing Q&A for what Artificial Ignorance determined to be the "Ultimate" quiz an algorithm could generate.

Question 1: What is considered the most universal sign used by Society?

According to the algorithm responsible the answer is certainly not the middle finger or flipping the bird or the California howdy or the one digit salute. Silly algorithm got it all wro g. This is another fine example of dysfunction in the system. I remember one of the first computer related challenges I encountered in my career was the String Truncation error. It came up often, it was annoying but easy to correct. The difficult part was explaining it to the end user, the paying customer, why they required hardware upgrades. Computers don't run out of space, not anymore they don't but they once did and maybe Y2K was our overreaction. Welcome to the impass between people and computers, it's my belief the quantum singularity will only be reached upon clearing this impass. Now we have AI and all the complexity of explaining the existence of the known universe to an ant before you step on it. Maybe ants understand the universe better than we do. Millennial thinking is non existent, like that's what AI does, totally. But AI doesn't think, not by design, it's ability to reason and comprehend and thus generate solutions isn't thinking. People still need to do the thinking. Herein lies my rub, the people problem. Society is a hustle set to copy and paste indefinitely however the cheap copies are so far degraded from the original material it's literal incomprehensible garbage, you might call it social media. Here's the thing. Millennial thinking cannot formulate an original idea, a single thought. Trying to explain basic comprehension of common sense to the simple minds of the 21st century is comparable to trying to explain the vast scale of the known universe to an ant right before you step on it. To be fair ants probably have a far greater comprehension of the universe than we do. The human solution here, remain ignorant and act dumb. Most people aren't acting. It infuriates me everytime one of these Muppets inform me about the changing times. Well no shit genius I am of sound faculty to observe the constant of change necessary for the continuation of life however this change you speak of can be polarized as good or bad, we're currently experiencing bad change. There is so much crap going on in the the world it's inducing sensory overload. The Matrix has us and there is no disconnect. My phone goes nuclear when I swipe to unlock it, let's take a moment to appreciate the mushroom cloud melting my face off. I would go to my happy place but that is a closely guarded secret I keep well away from the digital apocalypse. But I do have somewhere to go; music. I certainly miss the Walkman I cherished in my youth. I commended its successors the Discman, the iPod and Nokia mobiles but I mostly miss the headphone design of the Walkman. People saw your wearing a pair and left you well alone. I put air pods in my ears and everyone interprets it as a sign to converse or preach or lecture or monologue or talk to me for all eternity instead of just leaving me the hell alone. I too am guilty of disturbing this peace. We need to disconnect from the constant content assault, skip, focing our engagement, skip, by demanding we like, share, comment, subscribe, join, sign up, become a member and pay for it, skip. The programming is deliberate that I'm subconsciously clicking the skip button in my own content. I understand everyone needs a outlet but why is it original content creation requires commercial incentives for algorithm approval? 

This concept feels medieval, performers traveling among society pedaling their talents for coins, I called it mixtapes back in the day, you know, the old times.