I'd like you to imagine that there is no such thing as a country. It's not very difficult when you realize we're all humans. There would be nothing to kill or die for. There probably wouldn't be any religion either.
You could imagine, for just a moment, that all the people are living life in peace.
Now, I know I may seem like a dreamer, but I'm sure there's more people like me out there.
Maybe someday you'll be a part of us, and the world will be as one.
(John Lennon's "Imagine" rephrased)
Now, I know the internet may have ruined some of our imaginative processes (Why bother imagining what something looks like when you've got Google image search?), but it has also given a lot of facts. But there's something else it's done.
Every fact you read, every article you find, every study you discover, is surrounded by ads.
Every ad you see distracts your brain from fully absorbing the facts, so despite having every fact at the tip of your fingers, your brain won't remember it as well as when talking to someone about it, as people don't usually wear fifty ads, or stop in the middle of a discussion to point out that company A sells product B, and site C helps you discover D.
For some these ads are necessary for their lives. For instance, many YouTubers rely on ad revenue from YouTube to pay their bills, but there are other sites that simply have ads to make even more money than society has decided is enough to live on and still be able to buy some songs off of iTunes and a game on Steam every once in a while.
Like Facebook, which not only doesn't need all that ad revenue, but it abuses people's privacy just to give them ads it has deemed more relevant to you, or the people who use your computer.
Find those websites without ads, and you'll start really learning new things ;)
Keep up the imagination, and give peace a chance.
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