The internet is allowing people to connect from across the world, developing an empathy that didn't exist even 15 years ago. The internet is allowing people to educate themselves on better and more efficient ways to perform tasks... like perhaps harvesting rice. An international vote? Are you serious? Many of the places that this would be the beneficial to are places that lack the infrastructure to partake in such an unrealistic thing as a international "vote." Can you imagine the scope of such a thing, how hard it would be to administer? That is unless it were an online vote.... oh, wait.egotistical, always distracted, selves?
speak for yourself. There are plenty of people that have a connection to the internet and are able to not be egotistical or distracted. These are personal issues. Even without an Internet, the people you reference would likely be egotistical and distracted, just by other means.