We're All Fucking Idiots!

What in the hell has happened to us? Why can't I find a single public forum on the internet where people aren't calling each other assholes or motherfuckers or nazis or commies or shitheads or French? Its almost as though proper discourse has completely broken down? Gone is any empathy for the ideas and beliefs of others, replaced by informing those fucking stupid enough to be in disagreement with us that in fact they are fucking stupid.

I cannot even look at the comments on a site like Youtube anymore, for doing so make me want to fly a plane into any random building in the hopes that someone, sometime, authored a forum comment on the web. Are we that fucking spoiled and ignorant that we no longer debate courses of action and their associated possible outcomes but instead insult each others' mothers because the anonymous dipshit inside my computer screen voted for the other guy? And its not just shitty sites like Youtube either.

I actually was reading the other night an incredibly polite yet remarkably ugly argument on the forum for world grand masters of chess. How deflating to witness an official from the governing body of the game more or less call a world reknowned player an idiot and then diss him like an episode one might witness on the schoolyard. Forget checkmate. I smash your game board, cover my ears, and sing Kumbaya until you go away. Now I am no sociologist, but when the smart people start behaving like savages then there is little doubt we are fucked as a society.

What can we do about this sad condition we find ourselves in? The very fact that modern-day kids cannot focus beyond their next text message, let alone take responsibility for the garbage they espouse electronically, says little about future generations remedying said problem. Perhaps we are doomed and headed for the complete breakdown of manners and protocol in society? Our political processes have been hinting at this for years. Are we prepared for what this all means? Would a simple "please" and "thank you," coupled with the occassional "I stand corrected" save western civilization from it's inevitable unraveling? If you answered STFU then I should have legal license to end your miserable existence in the most efficient manner available. That sounds fair to me. Would you concur, my friend?