In the The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen – Interviewed by a Retard, Andreessen answers:

the Internet has given all of humanity full read/write access to one another’s minds for the first time, and this is a massive shift in individual and collective psychology that we are just starting to grapple with. For example, we are now exposed to the crushing emotional load of suffering anywhere in the world, with no gatekeeping intermediary to insulate us, and not just occasionally but all the time. Figuring out the effects of this civilizational shift – certainly on par with the Gutenberg revolution, if not way beyond — will take a long time.

Andreessen has casually revealed perhaps the most profound change to humankind of our age. Sure bad things happened before but never so visibly.

While the Israelis carefully murder a million Palestinians, they traumatise the rest of the world who stand by and watch.

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