I totally understand what you mean by growing up on a different internet. The mistake I made as a kid was in believing people wanted things like intellectual f

I totally understand what you mean by growing up on a different internet. The mistake I made as a kid was in believing people wanted things like intellectual freedom and to contemplate things they don't agree as to potentially grow and learn something new. People don't want that at all. I think we can see that largely, people want to be told what to think and then demonize those that think differently for entertainment. That is basically what defines our culture in 2024. This is just the start of this new culture too. There is so much room left to run when you still have people who remember what things were like at the start of the internet. What is gen alpha going to save the culture? I think that will be a really comical thought in 15-20 years. We are still pretty close to the surface. Maybe I won't because of old age but as a society we are going way deeper.