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Title: Kibbles and Bits
Post by: Butterfly on June 29, 2010, 05:12:55 PM
Post by: Butterfly on June 29, 2010, 05:12:55 PM
Kibbles and Bits
By Dyssonance
29 June, 2010
http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=3541 (http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=3541)
The current movement has a strategy that is found heavily buried in acronyms and discrete concepts which are all important. Each one is a piece of the whole, a bit, a bite sized morsel.
There's ENDA, the jobs bill. DADT, the jobs bill. DOMA, for marriage equality. And others besides those, of course, and here's the sad truth, the truth even ornery sorts like myself often forget when we fall into the trap that the current way of doing things sets us up for.
All of them are important.
We can get into heated arguments over which piece should be pursued first, and justify each of them with arguments good, bad and indifferent. We can fight over the strategic implications of red or white or blue until we are purple and putrescent, but all of that fails us all when we do so, as it serves only to foster disunion and dischord because the pieces we are dealing with are all discrete and disassembled, and, thusly, tend to miss the important stuff.
By Dyssonance
29 June, 2010
http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=3541 (http://www.dyssonance.com/?p=3541)
The current movement has a strategy that is found heavily buried in acronyms and discrete concepts which are all important. Each one is a piece of the whole, a bit, a bite sized morsel.
There's ENDA, the jobs bill. DADT, the jobs bill. DOMA, for marriage equality. And others besides those, of course, and here's the sad truth, the truth even ornery sorts like myself often forget when we fall into the trap that the current way of doing things sets us up for.
All of them are important.
We can get into heated arguments over which piece should be pursued first, and justify each of them with arguments good, bad and indifferent. We can fight over the strategic implications of red or white or blue until we are purple and putrescent, but all of that fails us all when we do so, as it serves only to foster disunion and dischord because the pieces we are dealing with are all discrete and disassembled, and, thusly, tend to miss the important stuff.