Wishing away society, people, technology...

I'll be perfectly, brutally honest: I'd had a rough day already when I sat down to read this and I didn't finish it. It really did make me feel sick, tainted almost. I use the internet for a variety of reasons and often wish that I had the technological skills to hack. I suppose I still do, but if I did have those gifts, I would want to use them for good, not evil. That being typed...what can one good hacker/gifted tech user do? One against many is still a bad idea, especially on the internet.

As for the first quote above, all you need to do is surf around the internet to find that truth out for yourself. Anyone can say anything to anyone and make it anonymous. Or perhaps worse, a falsity. It's a wise statement to be true.

I think the second quote above is a fitting example of the mental state of society today. Everyone's defense in some mode or another. Anyone seems ready to attack for perceived notions, forming concrete opinions on things they take as true. I know, I've been on the receiving end of it. I try not to judge, and stop myself from doing it. I just can't help but wonder sometimes if it's worth trying at all. That's what scares me the most though.

The last quote up there was about as far as I got before I finally had to stop reading. People have always taken delight in showing power over others. Putting others in lower rankings, messing with their heads, tormenting the living with the dead are all prime examples of how the human animal displays dominance over its fellow human. But when do you go too far? Where's the measuring stick? Most trolls seem to love making others despise themselves. I simply wish I could see the same thing happen to them. Wouldn't they laugh along then? Yeah.

It's a real shame that after reading this article I felt more sad than angry. I don't see as it matters that Mitchell Henderson didn't give a reason as to why he took his own life. In today's world, after something like this and relevant events...I think they could be reason enough. It's conceivable that I envision disappearing from the world and going back to a simpler time. Society would be small, people would be few, technology would not be world wide. Alas, but for the imaginings of the wandering mind. Hopefully, I'll find a place like that to reside in; else I could almost come to fear the world as it progresses towards the hot gates in a hand basket, delivered by twisted visages of ourselves.

I suppose you want to go back now. No worries, I do to. Simply remember that which hath been done in an effort to not repeat it. GOODBYE