Friday, 29 January 2021

Reading this piece, I’ve finally figured out what exactly is wrong with the common (and relatively new) Internet trope “I [did something] so you don’t have to.” “Doing something” on behalf of “us, common people” based on the premise that this is *the one and only* way to deliver a certain issue is a dead giveaway: “Me being smart, and intelligent, and humble is my burden and also my duty to put you in your place, dumb peasants. Oh and, of course, I feel bad for you.” 
Anticipating your remark “stop projecting and look at the bright side of it: the guy is just trying to share his opinion like everybody else, and he has every right to do so,” I’d say: of course. Of course he can, no doubt about that. But what if I told you that, even though it might feel somehow “right” to you, it still doesn’t automatically mean that it is indeed necessary to deliver your opinion as if you were preaching upon us? No? Okay. 
The author’s assumptions about “conspiracies,” which are somehow flooding his feed together with “boring pizza pictures (um, what?)” on Minds are laughable, sorry about that. He does indeed have every right to feel this way, but I also have my right to feel a bit of regret that I spent six or seven minutes reading his article. 
I read it, so you don’t have to… No, not that: go right ahead anyway.

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