Gore's "Assault on Reason" and Brooks's Response

For the most part, I found Gore's opinion on the solution to the downfall of reasoning ridiculously idealistic. Like Brooks says in his review, the Internet is much more populated with violent, emotional arguments than it is with intelligent and logical ones. Also, Gore seems to contradict himself in the excerpt. First he claims that Americans are becoming "disconnected from the democratic process," and argues that we are slowly being alienated from our government which no longer seeks our support on issues, just our financial support and our votes. However, at the very end he asserts that "networked democracy is taking hold," so apparently we're getting more involved as we're being cut-off.