The internet is a vast wonderland of seemingly infinite information on a wide array of subjects. You can learn of the great accomplishments of history, explore the limits constantly tested by science and medicine, you might immerse yourself in the culture of others getting to better understand people and by extension the very nature of humanity. But more likely you are going to look up who the girl from Charles In Charge was and whether or not it is her in this movie. (Her name was Nicole Eggert and if the movie in question is the 1998 film Siberia then you are correct, she most certainly is in that movie.)
Yes, the internet had the opportunity to change our world in a million ways but ultimately it's greatest value to us is identifying meaningless trivial interests. The most significant of these of course, this being America and us being privileged people in a comfortable society, are pop cultural excavasions. We want to know who was in the good TV shows that mattered in our youths and the films that have filled in most of the areas of our brains that in the past might have been filled with something called "life experience." Instead we live life in something like a constant movie and TV review cycle. We are trapped in our brains which no longer belong to us. These days our heads belong to the cast of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia or the kids from the Twilight movies. Why bother having our own life experience when we can hitch our wagons to funny drunks who aren't going to hurt us and weird otherworldly beings who are hot?
Each day we choose the television or the multiplex over going out and getting to know others better. The internet has made it so that the television and multiplex now come with us everywhere right in our pockets. As a result we can skip all the getting to know our fellow man and instead explore the intricacies of the career of Keenan Ivory Wayans. Yeah I remember the movie Little Man!
Getting into the real world instead of delving into the world of internet pop cultural ephemera just seems messy and generally not fun. If we can instead communicate in good TV shows and this movie or that movie we will find that our sense of humanity is reflected in that pop culture. We will be better because we will be less ourselves and more like the people we see on screens. Our eternal betters.
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