Sometimes I feel we got tricked, duped, with that internet and all. Back in the day, we were promised the information super-highway, connecting people from distant lands in a matter of seconds, and all the grotesque and obscure pornography you could ever yearn for. But the more I read the internet, the more it seems a ruse, a clever mechanism that feeds on us. On our anger.
We all know that, according to the fifth fundamental law of thermodynamics, when on the Internet, opinion IS fact. Always objective, always indisputable. It is thus unfortunate when people of two varying beliefs meet. In real life, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so the two can shake hands, agree to disagree, and maybe go get a burger at McDonalds together (or In N Out for those in California and Arizona). But on the internet, no such possibility exists.
On the contrary – the Internet, the great provider of entertainment and information, forces us into state of mutual aggression, constantly jumping each others’ throats, shit-posting, insulting, screaming in ALL CAPS or questioning the other’s sexual preferences. And the Internet greedily feeds on this, its gluttonous databases over-saturating with the exponentially multiplying blog comments, sprawling into indented trees of hate and bile. Thus the Internet grows, ever so larger, ever more powerful.
To what end? That is unclear. But I suppose we wont need to wait long; the world ends this year, after all. And it won’t be some meteor, ancient curse, global warming or even our trigger-happy nuclear-weapons-armed countries. It will be The Unquenchable Internet.