Of all the fantasies about how the internet would improve our lives, the notion that connectivity automatically brings people together is the most alluring. Mark Zuckerberg’s oft-repeated promise to create a “global community” on Facebook is merely the most recent example. For decades, the utopians of Silicon Valley have firmly believed that digital connectivity will bridge all misunderstanding and difference.
This notion goes back hundred of years - one of the first events in the Bible is "Cain slew Abel" And God did not punish him - but seemed to find such family conflicts normal. In this case, Cain was a herdsman, tending his flocks - and Abel was an agriculturist, a farmer. The two have never got along very well - as in our own history, in our Wild West. Where the Cowboy was seen as a hero - toting a gun, of course.
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