10 things we learned since the internet explosion

Ignorance is bliss.

The internet has become so ubiquitous that we can hardly imagine life without it, probably the biggest impact on people's lives since television. However, the internet has shown us some insights into our world that we would perhaps have been better off not knowing.

1) There are far more assholes in the world than we thought.
2) There far more sick people in the world that we might have thought - I worked in internet telephone support for a while which is where I discovered there was a large demand for carnage videos, execution videos, sexual cruelty videos. Demand that has only increased over time.
3) The crazy religious Christians and the crazy right-wing Americans are not the fabrication of some writer, they exist and in far greater numbers than we would have assumed.
4) Comments on newspaper stories display a large amount of unadulterated hatred, especially for Obama who gets blamed for everything that goes wrong.
5) Ted Nugent is a fucking prick! (That may be a plus actually)
6) The amount of people in this world who believe that FEMA is creating concentration camps to put all dissenters in.
7) The amount of people who believe that the Rapture is real and will be here soon.
8) The degree to which politicians avoid contributing any new ideas and spend their time slagging off or trying to sabotage the other party - leaders? Heard of them but have no idea what they are.
9) There is no longer any concept of truth in reporting issues, both the right and left media distort everything to fit their political agenda.
10) The driving force behind the massive take up of the internet back in the 90's was sex.

The internet is an amazing phenomenon but there is a big downside as it has provided  people with a far clearer picture of society and what a shit hole it pretty much is.