"perverse reality" ?!

My understanding is that any perversity associated with "reality" is in the eye of the beholder.

As for the rest of your argument, idealistic though it may be, consider:

• These tools you want to build must somehow filter out what you regard as objectionable material. How are you going to define that? Seems to me it's pretty much the same problem alluded to many decades ago by the Justice of the US Supreme Court, who threw up his hands over an attempt to distinguish between protected content (words, images, et al) and pornography: he said he couldn't define the distinction with words (law) but that "I know it when I see it."
• Are your tools going to replace the bots from Google, Bing and Yahoo (inter alia) to index the parts of the internet that satisfy your definition of sites which act "as a knowledge sharing tool?" (Where will you keep your server farm? How will you pay for the pipes, the electricity and the real estate? Will everyone seeking your www.nirvana need to pay you or do you plan to make your results available at your own expense, for the right to be the sole judge of what to include (Now, there's a notion that appalls me).
• You also say you are somewhat appalled" and "a bit disgusted" by the notion (paraphrasing myself) that advertising revenue makes the web go 'round. I'm not inclined to get upset (at least, not after thinking about it) over the fact that apples fall down; life is unpredictable; and economic gain is often a driving motivation for members of homo sap.

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