I was using the internet in the early 1990s (I can still find stuff archived on the web dated 1991). I was involved in party politics in the 1980s and I saw ho

I was using the internet in the early 1990s (I can still find stuff archived on the web dated 1991). I was involved in party politics in the 1980s and I saw how the sausage was made. I can tell you it's not like you see on the web today: there a lot more information available today than there was 30 years ago and it's of orders of magnitude lower quality. Don't confuse more crap with better crap. Prior to the waves of garbage fed the masses by the internet almost everyone knew how big a factor things were. Now, discourse is gummed up by propaganda which is mainly myths of inhuman incompetence or else extremely competent conspiracy and it's not feasible to pick apart the mess because communication is hard. Too much information make communications as difficult as too little.