People are more connected with those who have no immediate relevance in their lives, being at thousands of kilometers distance from each other, while ignoring their immediate family, neighbors, and community groups. Modern humanists waste all their energy, time, and resources opining upon topics with which they have little relevant information and even less ability to affect. Rather than "tending to their gardens," as Voltaire once wrote, these modern Candids neglect their duties and obligations, perpetually whine about the universe, fill the virtual space with their unlettered ramblings, driven only by the conviction of their ignorance.
Society degenerated to such a state because the West is not ruled, but "managed" by hired and temporary helps, placed in their political positions by a system of crude popularity contest. In all representative government, those populist whores who appeal to the basest human tendencies ascend to power. With the internet providing the proverbial Gyge's ring to the muck, the true nature and effects of humanist political system called democracy is unveiled.