The billionaires and their AI investors are moving the base-line of what is normal life in our consumer society, expanding from the platform of addiction that is the commercial screen.The important development in our time is not instantaneous information- it is lack of realism about evil; it is our failure to defend what is good. The gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is the loss of equal rights  under the law and is simultaneous with the rise of Artificial Intelligence. Now is the time when our defense of freedom makes us do impossible things.