Reading Comments on the Internet Feels Like It's the End ...

Watching an unbelievably beautiful video of Hubble probing the edge of space: unfathomable 17.000 comments, but half of them inane, gross, with atrocious spelling, insults from childish name-calling, immature outbursts, vicious moronic bullying to outright gibberish insanity. Reading YouTube comment threads can make you sense the end of the world as we knew it. How sad, but I guess one doesn’t have to look? ... The Internet brings the promise of connecting it all. But it could also conne...