I had a thought last night, and somehow I managed to remember it today … so here it is:

At the dawn of the internet people could have used the ability to interact with other people from around the world to seek out ways in which we are all the same … to realize the unity of the human condition worldwide, no matter the cultures involved. I did see a lot of that happening in the early years. Now that the internet is passed its infancy and strolling into its unruly teen-aged years, what I see is instead of looking for the similarities between us all and developing bonds of friendship across massive cultural divides, people use the internet to find all the differences they can be offended and upset by and focus mainly on those topics to the detriment of being able to see any similarities all humans share.

And porn … people use the internet for porn.

It’s a huge generalization, of course, because we aren’t all like that. Still, it’s a trend I have seen growing for some time now.