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Michael DC Bowen's avatar

As the great poet said "Everybody's got a thing, but some don't know how to handle it."

I'm convinced that the way we discourse online is constricted by the patience people have with clunky interfaces and the limited capabilities of web-chat. This has been a thing for me for decades. I hope to do something about that as soon as I learn how to draw Wardley maps.

Part of this problem is that your understanding about who has got a thing is almost entirely a function of popularity as determined by social media. That's one reason the entire blogosphere has been swamped, and the best bloggers - rather I should say the most popular bloggers have gone to a very few places none of which is the blogosphere.

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Absinthe's avatar

I think that every person has a thing but many are afraid of it because it makes them stand out, or worse, it makes them stand alone. So, perhaps a little sympathy for the thing-phobic thralls of humanity. Ours is a homogenized culture (by design) and having a thing is discouraged unless that thing is pre-approved, like a credit card offer. The odds of acceptance must be high within the tribal structure and the more the thing challenges the common order the more dangerous it is to articulate. That's why people get kicked off social media. The things that make us think are the things that scare a great many the most.

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