Internet Culture Is…

Internet culture is…

• Image over substance
• Putting up angry Facebook statuses to feel like you’re making a difference
• The irony that social media is strikingly anti-social
• Depressed Nihilism bandaided with materialism
• Accumulation of knowledge that no one actually reads
• Abandonment of local causes, but token internet support of global efforts
• The quick build-up of emotion, only to be quickly forgotten
• Mockery of everything, including the God, the Holocaust, and people during their lowest moments (ie, after a death in the family)
• Reducing a person’s life work to summarized quotes. They sound nice, but no one acts upon them
• Uniformity and conformity, with the illusion of individualism
• Casual, subtle and deeply unintellectual dismissal of religious traditions
• Overblown egos
• Concern with everyone but yourself, your family or your neighbors
• Lack of compromise or even being able to understand the opponent
• Hyper-atheism that only has the illusion of intelligence
• Having an opinion on things you are not qualified to have an opinion on
• Lack of genuine concern for suffering
• Western-centric view on culture – all others are “tolerated” or seen as backwards

The problem is not the medium, the problem is what the medium is used for. Keep yourselves free from these diseases.