AND WHY MOST OF US ARE ARE GETTING WHAT WE DID NOT WANT BUT CERTAINLY DESERVE. IN SHORT, SCREWED!
Jared Kobek, I Hate the Internet: A Useful Novel (Los Angles: We Heard You Like Books, 2016)("The Internet was a heaping mass of ideologies, spoken and unspoken, that reflected the social values of its many creators. Some of these men believed in freedom of expression. [] The system was designed with the sole purpose of maximizing the amount of bullshit that people typed into their computers and telephones. The greater the interconnectivity, the greater the profits. It was feudalism in the service of brands, and it rested on inducing human being to indulge in their worst behavior. [] A place where complex systems gave the mentally ill the same platforms of expression as sane members of society, with no regard to the damage they caused to themselves or others. A place where complex systems induced the destruction of human beings . . . with no purpose other than making money for Google and Facebook. [I]t turned out that an open forum of ideas was impossible when the vast majority of vocal users were no more than babbling shit-asses." Id. at 151.).
