I know that I was completely wrong in this regard. You know, like how Mark Twain said something like travel was anathema to bigotry.

So, I thought that the reason bigotry existed was that people are afraid of the unknown, so if you forced people together, they'd have to realize that we're all the same.

But now I realize that the main reason bigotry exists is that people are staying in contact with other bigots. The part about meeting diverse people is important, but far less important than pulling people out of their comfort zone to combat bigotry. So, the internet amplifies bigotry, because they'll never be out-of-contact with their local bigots, even if they travel away from them.

Are we not already on such a network? There are some here that moan about the Fediverse being too hard of a concept for the laymen to wrap their heads around. I do not disagree with them, but I like to see it as a moron filter that doesn't seem to exist on most other places on the internet.

Them being stupid, loudly, together, is making all of them stupider as individuals, too.

thats a strange view to hold considering how many communists predate the internet

you don’t think existing in late stage capitalism would have turned you into a communist regardless? there’s a reason in the last 100 years western governments have devoted so much money to crushing communism

As soon as the proletariat can do it, the bourgeois complain

Also, literacy itself was gatekept back then. The stupid people we're referring to wouldn't even have been able to read it.

Our species developing speech was a mistake

Yeah those things.

Some people get shot because guns were invented.