Of course there's a world out there beyond the internet, but before the internet it was a lot less likely you'd ever really know what you were missing. Sure, y

Of course there's a world out there beyond the internet, but before the internet it was a lot less likely you'd ever really know what you were missing. Sure, you might know the great diner around the block, but would miss out on the other dozen great ones within a couple of miles that you could have found on yelp. It's an interesting essay but rather excessively pessimistic I think. I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the internet, seems a filthy promontory, this most excellent filigree, the web, look you, this brave e'erchanging firmament, this majestical net fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of feces. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me