2. In Gutfield’s article, his main argument is that internet users are a celebrated and glorified group of degenerates that are constantly distracted from what is important in life. The community they have developed, he believes, promotes activities that tear down not only our country, but human society.
3. To support his thesis, Gutfield points out that internet consumers become distracted from the importance of everyday life by unrelated – and at times severely demeaning and dividing – content they find online. He laments that “we’re really just numb nuts united by a thirst for anything that might divert attention from the stuff we should be thinking about” (203). For