Having access to as much real time information as we do has had the exact opposite effect on human behavior as you would have thought. It's been like spraying gasoline from a crop duster on a bunch of small isolated fires. Now every freak, zealot and drop-out on the planet can draw together and coalesce into a united front with thousands of other like-minded psychopaths. I think that's also a central issue of this whole thing. What a mess.