My school used to have 600 people. 1000 is a huge crowd and it can easily be many times more than that. If it was like 300 years ago, then how would you even get 100 people to hear what you have to say?
Imagine walking onto a stage, in front of a thousand people, and just saying a random thing in the microphone, that you just thought of while stoned and then simply leaving. Alternatively, you could stay by the door and start arguing with the audience members as they’re leaving like I’m now probably going to do.
Not a word.
Says who? The word police?
It’s also terrifying. Especially when you open your inbox 12 hours later and you see a bunch of comments poking holes in your arguments or making fun the ideas that sounded really good in your head. When you write something online, you never know if you’re going to end up in a hurricane like that.