[...] We're so young we don't remember a time where there was no Internet, but we're still old enough to remember being excited that we could use it to start a revolution.

But we were so wrong about that, our friends. So very wrong.

There was no revolution to be had on the Internet. None at all. The idea that there ever was is false. A big fat lie.

[...] We watched huge battles rage. And we thought they were exciting and important.

But we were wrong, we slowly realized. We realized those battles were just a spectacle, a distraction from what was really going on. Because those battles were taking place on a battlefield that didn't matter. On a battlefield that had no way of making a difference. Because that's a battlefield we don't own, and never could. New battlefields built just to keep us occupied.

[...] We watched our political activists and community leaders become celebrity brands, our tech-utopian visionaries bow to capital and shareholders.