Blaming the messenger.

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I suppose there's little doubt that the internet accents the extremes. All sorts of anti-social types seem to enjoy filming themselves for YouTube, thus permitting us regular people with voyeuristic tendencies to comfortably sit back at home and gape at the lows to which humanity seems to be steeping. Of course we could also do this via television, which was once, long before the internet, the main culprit. But today it's so much more enjoyable to blame the web.

This doesn't mean that the web, like television before it, is little more than a mirror held up for us to get a better, non-touched-up, view of ourselves. On the other hand, if we want to look, we can also find example upon example of behavior we can be proud of. But we seldom want to see these on television, so why should we want to do so via the internet?

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Go to: Taking it personally.