Its not that either one is intrinsically evil, its that both together allow new opportunities for evil to flourish. It would be nice if we could just identify and eliminate villains, but sometimes its not anyone's fault. Its just the way things have worked out. I've thought about this a lot, and I really can't see a way out of it. And of course, there never seems to be a shortage of villains ready to take advantage of things.

Something like this must have happened when other democratizing communications technologies of the past were introduced; the alphabet (as opposed to hieroglyphics), paper, printing from movable type, the spread of public literacy, broadcasting and so on. How was the problem solved then? Was it?

Lately I find myself succumbing to despair.