(and the view of mountain from County Line rd when approaching Broadway delivers all sorts of philosophical thoughts :) ) on how I'd describe the way most people are using social networks and media. I'd compare the quality and quantity of their original posts, reposts and pictures - to their cooking abilities. And the way they express their thoughts and show their emotions - to use of spices when cooking.
It's not just that too many people seem to have the very same way of seeing life, very same goals and priorities - and even ideas of what they need and how it will change their lives once they get it. The world they use to describe it - are so very same. And - this has never occurred to me before - their feelings and emotions, or at least the words they use to translate their feelings and emotions are often out of place or exaggerated. Any banal object must be magical, amazing or adorable. Any life event or situation, from a weekend hiking trip to a workout session - awesome, or at least wonderful. Any problem gets blown up 10 times bigger, any joy or success - gets projected as phenomenal. That does leave a thought of emptying a whole jar of cayenne pepper into a pot of soup, instead of putting just a pinch. Or when baking chocolate muffins - doubling the sugar in the recipe, adding caramel and topping the whole thing with double layer of chocolate frosting. Or adding Tabasco to every dish or every meal: whether it's chicken , beef or fish; because without Tabasco "it has little taste".
On the way back from Santa Fe we stopped for lunch and got some broccoli cheddar soup, after tasting which I grumbled to Von Zobel that nowadays it is impossible in F&B industry to mass sell something unless it's too salty, too spicy or too sweet. Just now I thought that this might as well relate to mass selling of self online.
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