Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: It Is the Internet
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/it-is-the-internet
- Read date:: 2025-09-13
Highlights
There is nothing constitutional in people today that is better or worse than it was before. We are all as mediocre as ever. But the facilities around us are not. Now, we can build a giant machine that encourages us to indulge in our worst tendencies. We can design that machine so that those who use it can mainline its most toxic and addictive chemicals. We can ask the machine to tell us we are right, and use it to meet other people who will also tell us we are right. We can drive ourselves mad by living in the machine—posting to it, fighting on it, and, eventually, murdering for it. (View Highlight)
We all want all of this to stop. But keep giving us the internet and we will keep doing the same thing. (View Highlight)