He kind of counters that by saying the Battle School is a collection of all the brilliant kids on earth, and that's who he's following. He doesn't have much of a reason to bring in the 8 billion normal or stupid people, because who would read about that?

I also feel like he wrote his now-ridiculous interpretation of the internet as a place for intelligent discussion at a time when the internet could have evolved into that... if the world wasn't filled with trolls.