You are not offering up your own ideas, you are parroting the ideas of those you presume have done your thinking for you. Further, you offer them up offensively: "When, exactly, did doing good for society come to equal paying off a gigantic, intrusive, abusive global empire?" You really think that's not inflammatory, offensive language? You wanna be a "different person" online? Offer up your own ideas. Defend your own ideas. Don't just fish around for websites to defend your pet theories for you. And if you're going to correct the attribution and meaning of a quote, you damn well better be right. "Civil" does not mean "willing to permit grievous logical errors and inflammatory canards in the spirit of camaraderie." "Civil" means "don't shoot first."