The Internet was Not Made for Porn

Contrary to popular Broadway musicals, the Internet was invented for more than just pornography.

Hollywood, and popular culture often makes fun of the idea of technology “attacking” us as a society with renegade robots that try to enslave mankind and “mad” scientists breeding humanity in their idealize image of perfection. But most of the movies and/or books fail to see the real and present dangers that we are confronted with everyday. They do not look at the way technology is actively damaging the family structure and leading to lawless behavior and destroying entire cultures and civilizations. This is not science fiction people.

Easy access to porn Identity thefts Other internet theives Pirating artistic material

Folks wanting to jack your stuff and sell it on ebay or Craigslist

Spreading propaganda

Cultist behavior Laziness Isolationism Predators who lure innocent children and other victims into prostitution and other amoral behavior depersonalization, distancing and lack of sympathy

These are not the makings of a good, honest society. In fact, these are a far cry from the utopian “information super highway” that was supposed to make our lives easier, as was originally advertised when the internet was first introduced to the mainstream!

I’m pretty sure, though, that the creators of the internet thought that this would be an amazing invention that would one day serve as a means of preserving information…preserving entire cultures even, in the event of a catastrophic emergency the likes of Mount Versuvius, which have robbed us of countless lives and knowledge of cultures of the past.

Other disasters of similar proportions include:

Hurricane Katrina The 2004 Asian tsunami the recent earthquake in China The cyclone in Burma

Such natural disasters bring the human race face to face with it’s mortality on a daily basis. These problems made people realize how fragile our lives, and our information is.

History books Medical Records Financial records

…all needed a means of preservation that was less fragile than paper, yet more convenient than carving everything in stone (which would still be subject to destruction by the elements).

Someone came up with the great idea of going digital!

For more information, read about the History of the Internet on Wikipedia.

The point of all of this is just to say that the internet is more than just whiny blogs, product placement and smuggling pornography…

It is cultural preservation, it is history in the making. It is Earth’s “permanent record”.

You know, how there is a running joke where parents and/or teachers tell their children not to engaging in certain behaviors, because if they do it will go on their “permanent record”?

Well, the internet is sort of just that.

So, every time, you upload a naked picture of yourself, or a profanity-filled rant, onto the internet, think about how one day, if a meteorite ever falls out of the sky and destroys the Earth, and all that is left is digital data, and aliens come and find the Earth and escavate for signs of life, and they find our internet data (which is all that will be left…other than cockroaches)…think of what they will think of our society when all they find are naked pictures of Paris Hilton and blogs listing the Top 10 reasons Katherine Heigel is hot!

Of course, I’m kidding. I know there are a lot of good people doing a lot of good things on the internet.

However, I do feel that we, as members of the human community, should make a conscious effort to leave the Earth a little bit better than it was when we got here…In fact, we should leave this universe a little bit better.

We’ve got to do better, is what I’m saying.


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