We absolutely were like this 10 years ago. 10 years isn't that long ago. All those sites were around then, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Hacker News... Even the

We absolutely were like this 10 years ago. 10 years isn't that long ago. All those sites were around then, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Hacker News... Even the topics changed only a little bit. GamerGate was 7 years ago. 4chan and 8chan were reviled before that. The major political debates are as old as time. The division between American and European morality is about as old as those world-views.