‘Humiliate’, v, from Latin, humiliāt-, participial stem of late humiliāre: To make low or humble in position, condition, or feeling; To humble or abase oneself, to stoop; sometimes, to prostrate oneself, to bow; To lower or depress the dignity or self-respect of; to subject to humiliation; to mortify. The other day the United States government won a victory over the nation of Colombia. After refusing entry to a military aircraft full of deportees and stating that his country would not bow to the threat of economic warfare, the president of Colombia did just that, and sent his own aircraft to gather the deportees. Also the other day the American president announced a vast investment scheme in ‘AI’ after exhibiting a number of tech-oligarchs at his inauguration. The richest one then denounced this scheme as unserious. Finally, yesterday a Chinese ‘AI’ company sent American tech-stocks falling after releasing an ‘AI’ system that is better and vastly cheaper than any of the American systems. For his part, the ambassador of China to Colombia has said: ‘we are at the best moment of our diplomatic relations…’ All this brings to mind some lines of the poet James Turner:
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