> Unfortunately dogma and propaganda will always be with us. Unless we're willing to reorder society around intelligence
I'm afraid you're confusing intelligence and reason. There are lots of highly intelligent but utterly dogmatic people out there. If only the stupid were dogmatic there would be no problem, nobody would listen to them...
It is true that the initial Internet was "cleaner", but that was because of the demographics. The early Internet was an extension of your work space with a specific, task-oriented population, while now it's just a huge multidimensional bazaar.