[This is a reposting of something I wrote just when I started Small Potatoes. I’ve substantially edited and revised it, but kept some of the old-timey examples.]
I think (FWIW) "Your Followers May Hate You" is a good description of how the interwebs pulls the curtain back, and the mob that's revealed is too self-absorbed to notice. And a lot of people are somehow (i.e. human brain ownership) still unaware that they're the mob making the noise. It's why I personally avoid reading comments in general, unless it's from people who know me, and have a reasonable basis on which to make an actual, likely sound observation on this/me/etc. We should all have to earn the respect that should be required for anyone else at all to care what we say/think ... yup.
Oh, so now you are calling it Smart Potatoes, huh???!!
Oops. Fixed.
Wow! Great post, Paul!
Heh.
I think (FWIW) "Your Followers May Hate You" is a good description of how the interwebs pulls the curtain back, and the mob that's revealed is too self-absorbed to notice. And a lot of people are somehow (i.e. human brain ownership) still unaware that they're the mob making the noise. It's why I personally avoid reading comments in general, unless it's from people who know me, and have a reasonable basis on which to make an actual, likely sound observation on this/me/etc. We should all have to earn the respect that should be required for anyone else at all to care what we say/think ... yup.
Amazing 🤩
(Nobody fucking cares when I quote Adam Smith and I wrote a fucking book about him)