AI companies are consuming all the electricity, and will destroy the economy when their bubble bursts, in their quest to eliminate millions of jobs and control the lives of everyone, to profit the global tech elite.
Memes are not-for-profit cultural detritus. They are not the same.
We've been sliding this way since the US "police action" in Vietnam. The pre-authorization for Bush to go to war with Iraq was Congress' big final step in abdication of its war declaring duties. Probably won't see Congress ever be required to declare another war.