I think it's an unfortunate effect of mass media. If anything however I think the internet made it 1% better, not worse. I wrote about the change from a world

I think it's an unfortunate effect of mass media. If anything however I think the internet made it 1% better, not worse. I wrote about the change from a world of actual dialogue to one of mass media, here: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/are-we-still-thinking https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/are-we-still-thinking