The internet was a mistake and is getting worse by the day.

Letting aside any speculation about the origins of the internet and if it was somehow “planned,” I think it is apparent that overall, the internet as we know it mostly had a negative influence on our lives.

Apart from being a tool of mass surveillance, it led to an increase in addictions, from video games to pornography, for which it is mostly used anyway. One psychologist called it the best “time waste machine” ever invented.

Pornography itself is worse enough: more widespread than ever before, wrecking our already degenerate societies further; apart from the influence it has on more and more lives and, in turn, our culture, technology also enabled average people to make a living from degrading themselves.
However, thanks to the smartphone and trash like tinder, sexual promiscuity is more rampant now than ever before. Due to such “hook-up apps” alone, copulation is performed around fifteen million times a day in the US. As if it wasn’t worse enough already …

However, I especially want to note how the so-called Web 2.0 increased the spread of awful, vulgar, shoddy viewpoints — sometimes even masqueraded as truth by the most depraved. There has been an increase without a doubt, social media allowing every imbecile to give his opinion. Even before that, it was possible for those with the time and money to get on the net and spout their nonsense. Arrogant bullies (psychopaths) who puff themselves up at the cost of others have free rein; honesty, manners, compassion, truth hardly has a place there.

Gómez Dávila warned us:

The modern mentality’s conceptual pollution of the world is more serious than contemporary industry’s pollution of the environment.

It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.

The cultural rickets of our time is a result of the industrialization of culture.

In no previous age did the arts and letters enjoy greater popularity than in ours. Arts and letters have invaded the school, the press, and the almanacs.
No other age, however, has produced such ugly objects, nor dreamed such coarse dreams, nor adopted such sordid ideas.
It is said that the public is better educated. But one does not notice.

The majority of men have no right to give their opinion, but only to listen.

We should ask the majority of people not to be sincere, but mute.