Is it having the information that is harmful, or the actual facts of life that you are being informed about that is harmful? The Internet has basically shed li

Is it having the information that is harmful, or the actual facts of life that you are being informed about that is harmful? The Internet has basically shed light on a lot of common practices and uncomfortable truths that could be swept under the rug during the 20th century mass-production, mass-consumption, mass-culture, and mass-communication era. I'd argue that the real evil isn't knowing that your politicians are screwing you - it's them screwing you. Similarly, the real evil isn't knowing that we're all about to get fucked by climate change, it was the 100 years of industrial policy that brought us to this point. It isn't knowing about all the wars and the terrible stuff going on around the world, it's the wars and terrible stuff in the first place. The Internet is going to lead to the destruction of society as we know it, but I'd argue that that society - the post-Industrial, post-Colonial, post-urban wasteland we've been living in since the 19th century - should never have existed in the first place.