{"id":194,"date":"2008-12-20T00:59:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T05:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:33:44","slug":"shit-or-get-off-the-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/shit-or-get-off-the-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Shit or get off the pot"},"content":{"rendered":"

So around the bloggernacle<\/a> I go about twice a week. I don\u2019t spend too much time there because everybody discusses the same things over and over and over again and it\u2019s wearying. The feminists fondle the patriarchy of the church like a worry doll; the academes throw around their $100 words and concepts that I don\u2019t understand (click away! click away!); the more-righteous-than-Mojo bewail the crumbling standards in the church and how wicked the world is; the artistes ask, \u201cWhere are our Miltons and Shakespeares<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n

Yawn and no big.<\/p>\n

But then there are the people with way too much time on their hands who come up with nifty ideas that they want Someone Else to (help) implement Right Now and then wail and moan that these ideas haven\u2019t come to fruition and what is wrong with You All?<\/p>\n

Endlessly.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t an LDS blog phenomenon, so don\u2019t think I\u2019m picking on my own again. I see it in every sector of the web I visit, in the smaller niche communities where, apparently, because we\u2019re \u201call in this together,\u201d we\u2019re all supposed to roll with the Next Great Idea because of some artificial construct of solidarity.<\/p>\n

And every time I see the same permabloggers on every blog they contribute to express their desire for the same thing they expressed elsewhere, with the same plaintive whiny tone, I just want to say, \u201cDo it your owndamnself.\u201d<\/p>\n

I see all sorts of ideas and requests for programs and calls to change, but the work product is pretty much 50,000 words of \u201cWhy won\u2019t you support Meeeeeeeeeeeeee and my Great Ideeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee????\u201d spread across about 14 blogs, mired in clarifications and addenda and backpeddling.<\/p>\n

Oh, and speaking of backpeddling. When I began the process of actually implementing a (better, I thought) version of one of these ideas and shared it with one of the terminal whiners, the response was: \u201cYeah, good luck with that\u201d with the internet equivalent of a sneer and no offer of help\u2014for an idea that was GREAT! until it A) morphed out of this person\u2019s comfort zone and B) started to require thought and action and money.<\/p>\n

This happened to a friend of mine, too, in an interwebz community I inhabit, but she doesn\u2019t. However, she\u2019s good at looking at ideas and finding ways to monetize them. So she contacted the person with the Great Idea and the minute it involved A) work and B) money, the person promptly ignored her.<\/p>\n

Eh, fuck ’em and the ideas they rode in on.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not taking any of it seriously anymore until I see some evidence that it\u2019s more than simply masturbating to Idea Pr\u00d8n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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