The Digital Wasteland

Why are some readers so hostile?

Walter Rhein
4 min readOct 28, 2020

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Sometimes the internet makes you shake your head and wonder. What drives all the misplaced hostility? What compels people to write aggressive and embarrassing comments that a two-second Google search could disprove?

Is everyone on the internet going through a bitter divorce? Have they all just lost their jobs? Why is everyone so angry?

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Walter Rhein

I have 10+ years experience as a certified English and Physics teacher. 20+ years of experience as an editor, journalist, blogger and novelist.