What it was meant to be..

With the advent of the Internet, it has become increasingly easy to debate, express views quite frankly, extract opinions, with nothing at stake but our own world view.

Yesterday Forums, Message boards, Groups, Networks, Discussion Boards meant meeting a wide cross section of people [not necessarily likeminded], meant exchange of views with no attempt to condemn other's view, no distasteful language. Today the message boards & groups have turned to blame boards while discussions have reduced to an intellectual excercise in mechanical futility.

While I do appreciate free speech arguments, harangues only prove that all of us are quite bound in our own ignorance and try justification in the name of a country/religion/politics. Most of the discussion forums are open doors for circular argumentation, which fails to distinguish emotion from discussion leading to programmatic degeneracy.

Is all we can do is look on with resigned understanding?