I am nowhere near as optimistic as you are. One of the biggest problems I see with the way we interact online is that there are very few places* where people wi

I am nowhere near as optimistic as you are. One of the biggest problems I see with the way we interact online is that there are very few places* where people with differing viewpoints interact at a level of trying to learn from or understand one another. The result is that politics are even more fragmented than ever, and everybody feels more righteous and mistakenly better-informed, because they've never had to read and seriously and honestly consider an opposing viewpoint. * Honestly HN is the closest I can think of, and it's skewed pretty heavily liberal with a touch of libertarian.