Could this be the main lesson of the internet?

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As we graduate from kindergarten, we learn how to speak and read. As we grow up and network with others, we start seeing and feeling the restraints of our parents’ rule. In the process, we also gain more information and resources and technologies by which we can successfully go out on our own. Depending on the functionality of our family, this is often an awkward transition period with lots of drama. But leaving the house and thwarting our parent’s rule is always a good thing in the long run. Could this be our analogy? Could internet technology and education bring about this transition where we (as a species) finally start to see and resist the abusive restraints of our dysfunctional custodians? Could this be the overall eventuality of online information? That we begin to realize that not only have our custodians been abusing us our whole young lives, but we are old enough to not need them anymore anyway? That we grow out of the deeply programmed paradigm of the need for government? Is this the most important thing we need to learn at this point in order to survive well?

I have to tell you that the internet seems to be making our “leaders” look worse and worse on pretty much a daily basis.