What's Diff About Me?

wrinkles and "winkles"

May I put my Substack in context? While I was reading the one called “Bad at Keeping Secrets,” by Carrisa Um — Potter! That is it! While reading it I had a thought; “what is different about me?” Why am I not like her… I you want to know what’s different about me…. Well, that involves the matter of why I do not think like others. Or whatever, but now I tell a tale or two of two Substacks, mine and this other personl’s. In such a way folks that read me (that’s you!) can proceed in their Substack viewing after making a comparison of myself with the fine person, the swell gal known as Carissa: another writer, not moi, Ms. Potter, she being associated with “Bad At Keeping Secrets,” her own publication.

One thing Potter says is she does business. She does that and also she says she takes advice. She says she sometimes copies. But that’s okay. As she points out others sometimes copy (her). There is also an idea she transmits that she isn’t a capitalist—and, do not call her one. Because she cried once. That, Carissa Potter reports, was when Carissa was called a “capitalist.” And she cried. Boy. That bothered her. She will actually cry if you call her that! ~ And you know, folks—? you only get this stuff on this one platform, Substack. (Not available any place else.)

But back on topic, it was about how she copies but that’s OK. She sells on Etsy. But that’s OK, too.

Okay. That’s her! So — what is different about me?

Well! Here goes nothin’.

I believe in really thinking things through. I don’t care where the fuck it leads, only just know that I do not seek to do anyone harm. As long as it does not harm…

Also I don’t do too much selling. Hey. I should do more, but I do not get around to it, it is not what I am all about, or whatever. Not what I am into. However, I should sell, and probably would do so on Etsy if I could. The article that I am basing the comparison on: “Is this a Copy? If so Does it Matter?” is where the owner of the “Bad at keeping secrets” domain (not “Bad Cattitude” but I get it confuted with that) tells her story. (August 21st, or you can just scroll through all the titles and almost get the same picture that way, really. Because it is more of the same, repeated a lot.)

I think that in her way of life there is much catering to other persons’ opinions and it is a way of making a living where one is aware of the expectations others have. Just don’t be a capitalist! Expectations work for sameness, and there’s the nub of it, everything is the same, without wrinkles of any kind, because the creativity you have is funneled into the social machine attached to a society (I use the word “society” more often than do others) of expectation. They churn out Substacks for that society, which is an insecure place. If you say the wrong thing you are condemned. And then what? One need smooth out the wrinkles. It doesn’t matter how many. Pretty soon, everything is perfectly smooth. And one day she gets called a capitalist, but no — she is not one of those. It is not as “a capitalist” but it is that the person uses her creativity to smooth out the wrinkles, instead of to make more of them. Wrinkles, I mean…

Flikr.com (Jack; Lawton)

So there is your issue. I want to make more of them and I guess the issue I see in that is something to do with “smooth out the wrinkles” vs. “make more.” So, I will use photographs to advocate for my side! But, be warned . . .

This issue has never been … Um, resolved