As I said, there are enough real problems with society that we don't need to make up hogwash about how the internet is us stupider. Real problems, like a broke

As I said, there are enough real problems with society that we don't need to make up hogwash about how the internet is us stupider. Real problems, like a broken education system where the intelligent children with a desire to learn are bored to tears, and just stop trying in school, all in the name of bringing up people who can't -- or don't want to -- learn well enough to keep up. Real problems like a culture of unquestioning consumption of both material and nonmaterial items. Real problems like people's apathy towards their environment -- the communities that they are part of, the health of the planet they're living on, et al. I could go on. If anything, tuning into interactive trash is a step or two above what generations have been doing since the 1960s -- tuning into TV, and turning off their minds. I see the current inanity of many parts of the internet as a product of this culture of ignorance that you're speaking of, and not the cause.