I think the biggest issue is just that, we've seen a huge increase in people and groups' ability to have their voice heard without a commensurate increase in th

I think the biggest issue is just that, we've seen a huge increase in people and groups' ability to have their voice heard without a commensurate increase in the ability and willingness to evaluate those voices filter out bad information/voices. Without the mechanisms at the personal levels to filter out the voice just yelling nonsense for their own gain increased information isn't good it's actively detrimental. This is because people don't have an infinite capacity to consume information and evaluate it against everything else so we wind up in a bunch of smaller communities where the individuals are getting a full helping of information but it can be completely skewed and distorted. At least in the old more monolithic days there was a more common set of facts people were working from where today it seems more and more I'm arguing the basic facts about the state of $ISSUE rather than the merits of one approach to it or the other.