Exactly this, especially as journalism melts down into slag. Soon all anybody will have to train on is social media, Wikipedia and GitHub, and that last one will slowly be metastasized by AI-generated code anyway.

It reminds me of 1984 in a sense. "Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

Unlike 1984 I don't see this winnowing of new concepts as purposeful, but on the other hand I keep asking myself how we can be so stupid as to keep doing it.