(The featured image…man, this is probably the first time in 2 decades anyone has alluded to the phrase “information superhighway”. But I digress)

The modern world sure sucks, doesn’t it? All the political fighting and the douchebags and the thots and general shittiness. And only a few sites such as my own acting as flickering candles in the darkness. This, of course, reflects the overall crappiness of our culture. We produce no great works of art, no great literature, nothing but garbage all the way down.

Right now I’m going to ask you what may seem to be a very, very stupid question, but hear me out:

Are you on the internet right now?

Ask yourself that question again: are you on the internet right now?

Obviously, you are if you’re reading this website, so let me rephrase the question: Do you realize that you literally have the greatest repository of human knowledge in the history of the world at your fingertips? Yes?

Then why the shit aren’t you using it?

I am not exaggerating in the slightest that literally every text worth reading from every culture on the planet is available to you with just a few button strokes and mouse clicks. Do you hate modern literature? So do I! So does everybody with any taste at all. Instead of complaining about it, why don’t you strike a blow against modernity by…reading the classics? They’re all available on the internet, and literally every single one of them can be obtained for free—whether it be the Western canon, the Eastern classics, Subcontinental classics, or…well, nobody else really produced classics or any literature at all, but there’s a lot of stuff to read just in those three categories.

Going beyond the classics, all of the fictional literature worth reading (including the bulk of my beloved pulp fiction, which I will always argue should be considered classics) is also available on the internet, again largely for free. Websites such as Gutenberg.org and archive.org will provide enough material for your entertainment and edification for a lifetime.

Hopefully, some of you are already aware of websites such as these, and eagerly peruse the vast array of intellectual wealth that is before you. However, I am well aware that a fair amount of those on the masculine parts of the internet are passive dilettantes who spend most of their times posting pissy comments on blogs rather than actually implementing the lessons of content creators in their daily lives. And I’m also aware that I’m not the first person to complain about this phenomenon—not by a long shot.

In other words…yes, I am imploring you to stop jerking off and posting maymays for a quick and cheap hit of endorphins, and instead do something more substantive—the intellectual equivalent of proper nutrition rather than fast food.

Furthermore, realize that the internet is more than just a tool for auto-didacticism: social networking can indeed be a powerful tool as well. Rather than just posting on blogs, use the internet to meet up with like-minded people, to perhaps effect change in real life as well as on the internet—and yes, I am aware that this has been a tenet of the dissident right for the better part of the last decade.

(Except next time you try this, try not to, y’know, use networking merely to bang other men’s wives, get low-rent Svengalis gatherings of dumb chodes, or have old homosexuals groom teenage boys.)

And that really says it best, doesn’t it? A tool can be used for ill or for good; the tool itself is amoral. Since we have such a mighty tool at our disposal (as the title clearly states), there’s no reason for us not to use it for good.

Each legitimately great work of art you peruse is like slapping modernity in the face—and getting them for free is even more of a transgression, so I’d suggest you start now and keep doing it as much as possible. Here’s a few links to start.