We are blessed to live in the information age, but manners and civility are too often in short supply.
More like, "we are cursed to live in the electronic propaganda age.....", the rest is pretty much accurate. I sometimes marvel that the "Max Headroom" (1980's scifi computer geek TV series) episode "Data Rescan and the Trojan Sheep" only took 30 years to become reality. Poor old George Orwell had to wait more than 5 decades for Big Brother and Double Plus Quackspeak to happen.
Orwell wasn't gloom and doom all the time; my favorite Orwell works are "Burmese Days", and "Coming Up for Air"
As for "Can we all have differences of opinion?", yes, we can.