I remember that in 1995 the dream of the internet's potential boiled down to the idea that without corporate/government media filtering and manipulation, man would express his inner self.  Embedded in this sales pitch was the conviction that man was 'good', and that it had been this government/corporate structure that had spoiled him.  With open expression for every man we would free ourselves from oppression, racisim, and economic oportunism.  But this 20 year experiment has demonstrated quite the opposite, in my opinion.  Rousseau was wrong.  This perceived darkness is simply a structure of all men's hearts, and it is now unleashed.