In my humble opinion

People are clustered and bunched up via personal preferences. All due to the accident at birth.

Village people look up to the Chief. Urban the mayor and in a Democratic society the President.

Individual freedom vs Internet freedom. A scary thing. We have at our finger tips all the knowledge in the world (including bias, unverified news and rewritten history).

Meanwhile, people of different cultures who immigrated here can have it both ways: earning and living on the dollars while entertaining themselves with news and bias from home across the world. Let the winner emerge. Let the truth show itself. Out of the many, One.

Or will it ever be? Each group self-project by clicking on subjects they are most comfortable with. Personal preferences once again. Individual freedom (of expression and perception). Village chief, medicine man, snake oil salesman and witchcraft.

So we have a situation where algorithm pushes more content of reinforced taste and bias. Theme from A Summer Place, Theme from Mahogany etc.. The older generation gets older, fading into the background. The young keeps asserting themselves i.e. driving faster, being less patient and creating their own code words.

The internet, once thought of as the greatest unifying invention (no central node, no way to take down etc…) now turns multi-nodes into mini-babels with milli-meter waves and two-way 6G fast upload. All stove pipes, if you asked me.

Parental control? Government control? Tipper Gore PG-initiatives? Good luck. The Genie is way out of the bottle. The individuals (and instinct) are set free to roam, to search, to Google and to Xerox.

Warning: The content might include offensive materials….(that is the trigger for more curiosity and extra attention).

And so it goes. Those with bias tends to turn on and view content that suits their taste. Those who love theme from this and from that would turn to the “good old days” and rock the rocking chair.

Voila. The twain shall never meet. This time, it’s not geography-relevant. Not generational gap. It’s taste (pre-conditioned per accident at birth) relevant.

And out of many, MANY. Enabled by the Internet freedom, for the Individual freedom. Everybody gets to say, to watch and to hear as much as one could. Prejudge until you drop. Instead of shedding some light into darkness, we’re offered a wide variety of flash lights, from dimmable to flood. To the point that darkness turns secondary problem. It’s the myriads of solution (SEO) that blind us. Like a driver passing Death Valley into dazzling Las Vegas at night.

Now that I have offered my humble opinion, let me sit back, relax, and turn on my Theme from a Summer Place (to forget about the cold outside, the harm done to people in the hospital where surgeons themselves ended up lying on the operating table due to misguided bombs.)

P.S. It will take another generation or two, before we learn how to cope with the deluge of info on the internet, how to develop Internet-era survival mechanism via acquired net-sabbatical habits.