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Barman, bring me the soapbox, please
Is this microphone on?...
Oh... ah, never mind, I'll try to speak clearly...
Hello, kind people,
The Big Bad Web has won and I don't know there's much we can do about it; except not joining the baddies, and be the resistance and all that romantic nonsense, carry the flame for kinder times.
How to carry the flame? I am proposing to create kindly, to do things kindly. Rejecting hefty dreams of world fame, let's write for this one person, even if an imaginary one, creating with care, slowly if it needs to be so, not compromising a dot to the algorithm when that compromises our kindness.
Our work is not meant to create the Ring of Doom to find and enslave them all. Our work is to create kind things, be them useful, beautiful or just toys, but not chains or manacles. Our work is not to become slavers, to turn readers into addicts. It's neither to help those who create those things. It's not to create a virus, nor anything viral.
Our work is much more straightforward to do: to create something of value, even if it's just to one person, even if that person happens to be yourself.