Malwebolence

This article will appear in the NYT Magazine on Sunday.  Being, like litbrit, a linguaphile, I love a good turn of phrase.  So hats off to the copywriter who came up with "malwebolence" to describe that particular brand of immaturity, cowardice, cruelty, and outright viciousness that has come to define a certain cadre of sad sacks on the web.  Not able to shove somebody on the playground, and too stupid to do anything productive with their lives, they turn to tormenting strangers, sometimes to the point of criminality.  One wonders what Socrates, Aristotle, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, et. al. would've made of this development?  Maybe nothing.  Maybe, they would say, the technology's changed, but human nature hasn't.