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The internet amplifies human ability to access information. We get the entirety of human knowledge in our living room. We also get the entirety of human filth in our living room. Like every power amplifier in this world, for example guns, dynamite or atomic power, it amplifies both the positives and the negatives. The techno-utopian expectation that amplification of power will somehow bring Utopia is just that, utopian.

There is but one hope, cultivating virtue. When was the last time you even heard of the concept in modern culture?


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