The Internet made me doubt science more. As a late Boomer, I grew up in the miracle age of science & technology, assuming that it was natural for there to be a man walking on the moon and penicillin and other miracle medicinces to permanently conquer disease. Now, I know how much science is controlled by industry insiders, how flawed, skewed and even faked published science is (maybe 16% of published medical papers can be reproduced), and I've seen the Internet blanketed by paid posting science & tech shills who relentlessly push pharmaceutical, agribusiness and military industrial complex interests day after day.

Today, people may be living a little longer than before, at huge medical expense to society, but we are more unhealthy than ever before, with dietary/metabolic disorders and lifestyle diseases that make this the most obese/overweight generation ever and the medical sector has become a huge slice of our nation's GDP.

Recently, I was up in PA and saw some Amish people working their farms. They were healthy, strong and happy. I saw a teenage kid badass a horse drawing a load of manure down a stream trail and across a stream where he spread the manure on the gield and then drive the wagon/horse back up. He was really dextrous, confident and healthy-looking. I couldn't help compare him to some pasty kid in a basement playing GTA and telling some other kid on the Internet about how he was going to rape his mother.

The Internet Age is no advance on humanity's existence and consciousness. In each era, we have our delusions and even science can become a "religion" based on false marketing, faith and exploitation of others where people sell snake oil as a cure for man's ills. The only difference is whether there's a cleric with robes behind tha altar or a shareholder with stocks in a corporate industrial complex fronted on Wall Street who is benefitting off the inequality they are creating.