Sharpe's Opinion

How the Internet is Wrecking People’s Ability to Notice the Irony of Using the Internet to Complain about the Internet ‘Wrecking Society’

Rogue Movement write about ‘How the Internet is Wrecking Society’ in one of the least self-aware tirades I’ve read in a long time.

It is easy to slip into this detached state of being. The Internet is as much a protective cage as a car’s metal bars, only for the Internet, this protection isn’t from physical injury from another road-user as it is in a car, it is from having to come into any true contact with another human being. And it should be fairly easy to see that the protection this offers is false. The Internet is in fact a prison cell, keeping us from experiencing the world through our full range of senses: sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch.

This is rather like those ‘never use a long word when a diminutive one will do’ rants about the supposed break-down of grammar in society. Like the one George Orwell wrote. I can’t say I have much sympathy. If you want people to stop using the internet, how about starting with the Man in the Mirror?

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