Don't mind me

There's a lot of hatred in the world right now. A lot of it.
So many divided political factions and sociocultural groups filled with name-calling and trash-talking geniuses, it's made the news and social media toxic.

Everyone seems to think that they know exactly what's going on. They're the only ones who've figured eeeverything out, and if you don't share their opinion, then you are about to be thrown off a cliff.

My question is this: what's the end goal? What are they trying to achieve?
If you're sitting online for several hours everyday, typing on your keyboard, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah, calling people names, insulting them, talking down to them, arguing with them for hours at a time, what exactly is your objective?
If you're trying to win over people's hearts and minds, insulting them isn't going to work, is it?
What does p!ssing them off accomplish?

I can't begin to tell you how easy it is to insult people, both online and offline. Because people have grown up with it. They've seen it happen all around them; at school, in their homes, at work, and even on the streets.
When someone says or does something you don't like or approve of, the first instinct is to insult them.

I'm trying to understand what the point of all this is.
When I see someone say or do something that I don't agree with, I try to understand their perspective.
It's a big world. There's a lot of perspectives. People coming from all sorts of cultures and backgrounds. People who have been through different kinds of experiences. We can't necessarily all think the same way. But if we can communicate like civilized human beings, then we can understand each other, and then we can respect one another, despite our differences.

There are a lot of irrelevant issues in the human society today.
There's a lot of completely useless controversies that shouldn't even be a subject for discussion. It should be common sense about what's right and what's wrong. But people are still debating on it.
Some people keep bringing up issues that aren't even issues, and the others, being fed up, are ready to blow their lids off.

There's a ton of smartasses online too. No matter what you have to say, there's always someone that's got a joke ready to go. Something witty, something funny, or perhaps something stup!d. Everyone cracks up. But what does that accomplish?

It's all beginning to feel like a waste of time. Talking to people - waste of time, disagreeing with them - waste of time, arguing with them - waste of time, insulting them - waste of time.

I think the human brain was designed for a purpose of higher understanding. Instead of employing these brains to study, analyze and understand complex universal subject matters, people are underutilizing them by wasting time and fishing for attention.

When's the last time you learned something important on SW? Think about it.
When's the last time you read something that had an actual impact on your life?
How much of the time that you spend here is actually productive? What have you gained from it? What do you have to show for it? Compare it to the time when you aren't on SW. Is it better? Or does it get worse?