Internet Rancor

“One individual locked in a tiny room sitting at a computer screen typing out their irritation, projecting their bile into the atmosphere; and fifteen miles away a stranger doing the same; and five hundred miles away another, and so on, around the world. All of these streams of rancor and loathing then coalesce in the sky into a thin cloud of black and shallow dislike, and fall gently but dishearteningly to earth. None of the projectors is aware of any other: they spew in a void, and the contents of their irked guts are displayed potentially to everyone forever. I’d argue that this tends to be the pattern of Internet forums in general.”
~Alan Kirby