16 Mar 2018

Internet of Problems

For a while now, it’s considered to be progressive, wise and plain old cool to blame the internets for all the problems. The fact that it became cool can be partly explained by the fact that internet is the mainstream today (unlike the days when it was most loudly criticized by conservatively-minded people), so criticizing it gives you coolness points.

Many self-proclaimed (sic!) scientists do statistically-proved researches that heavy internet usage and smartphones make people nervous, detached and lonely. Many more internet-users repost these with their own comments and success stories.

And then some go as far as too blame internets for all the problems of today humanity. But if you dig through history, you’ll see the same things said about many other things. Come on, we’ve been degrading for thousands years since the golden age.

Internets make people nervous. Yeah, that’s true. If you use them to get the new dose of invaluable information every time you’re bored, it’s going to make you nervous. But what about newspapers, telephone, telegraph, radio and tv? If you wanted to be surrounded by the constant flow of the most important information all the time, you could do it before. The main difference with internets is that they let you choose much more options than before.

Internets make people detached and lonely. Yeah, all right. If you try to be communicating all the time, that’s going to make you lonely. If you’re not ready to disclose your life, but still do, that’s going to make you depressed. But if that was your goal, you could find the means to implement that in earlier ages too.

It can be argued that internets brought all of that down on the unsuspecting public, but the truth is that the so-called “unsuspecting public” have always had something brought upon it. Are internets worse than tv? Is tv worse than being illiterate slave?

Really, it’s not internets who kill people. It’s still mostly other humans who do that. They are inventing and firing guns, they are creating and ordering killer drones, they are threatening nuclear wars, they are making internets and then call them evil, trying to get more money from you by selling anti-net devices, apps and life styles. All of this is done by filthy adult humans who haven’t really changed as much as marketologists like you to think.

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