Got really stoned last night. Realized a few things.
1) We are now a civilzation that has normalized being able to experience other parts of the world very intimately. Another geographical location, culture, another person is reachable through a device that lives in your pocket.
2) This didn't happen on its own. A lot of thought, design, engineering, and care was REQUIRED somewhere along the implementation chain. (obviously not as much as should've been used, but there was some)
3) The internet is so, so very human in nature. What we do with it is also very human in nature.
The human species was so in need of connection and communication, anything to break down the silence inside our own skulls that we collectively just created a way for us to hook /everyone/ up.
4) We created a networked planet.
5) And in doing so, we discovered a few things, namely, we're all looking for fun, we all enjoy cute/dumb animals, and we are all so very hornt. Which is about as human as it gets, if you ask me.