There’s a great Dave Coverly cartoon of a worried king looking down from the battlements of his castle at an angry crowd massed just below. His relaxed advisor says, “Oh, you don’t need to fight them - you just need to convince the pitchfork people that the torch people want to take away their pitchforks.”

While the people who always use the correct words in just the right tone use up their wrath on the people who sometimes, in their estimation, don’t quite manage to, the real evil stays focused on growing stronger each day.

PS. a lot of conflict online could be addressed with a simple phone call. Yes, we still have that.

PPS. Did I say torches against pitchforks? Maybe I meant OMG.lol against micro.blog