Porn Star Ron Jeremy explains why he dislikes the Net:
“My dad predicted years ago that the internet was going to be both good and bad – kind of like nuclear energy. It’s got great uses when it is good, and frighteningly awful when it is bad.
“The internet has allowed a lot of crooks, thieves and squatters to become millionaires. Normally, they wouldn’t get a job washing dishes. I have a lot of problems with the internet and with identity theft. It has happened to me twice with my bank account, so I am not a big fan.”
“People can download stuff for free these days, so why the heck are they going to buy it? The only ones making money out of porn are the novelty companies. I just hate the internet in general.”
“I am a former school teacher, I have a masters degree and two BAs, and I think the internet is making people stupid.
“It’s good because you can research any topic. In my day, we went to the encyclopedia for that. Nowadays, though, kids can’t memorise anything. No dates, no times tables, no history. If there is anything you need to know, you just press a few buttons. We could be giving rise to a generation of idiots.”
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
Wasn’t the porn the force behind the net??
