I ran across the phrase, 'Building a More Strategic, Collaborative And Sustainable Movement' in my email a few moments ago, and at first read came up with Building a More Strategic, Collaborative And Sustainable Bowel Movement.
And I wonder who comes up with these things. But let's strategically analyze the significance of the accidental metaphor for social interaction. After all, there is waste. Let us address the waste, which we will officially call Predictably Ostentatious Objects (POO) where objects transcend the tangible and include anything that is referenced as a noun. For example, a meme.
In the context of the Internet, POO comes along and clogs up blogs, aggregators and even email. It has been known to crossover to books, newspapers, magazines and even bathroom walls - and vice versa. POO, as they say, happens. So now we need to address a More Strategic, Collaborative and Sustainable Movement for handling POO - like peristalsis.
POO starts somewhere and gets spread around. Some people sniff it cautiously, others feel it for intellectual texture, still others roll it on their tongues, and still others step in it accidentally. However POO is handled, in a collective way the world digests it in it's many forms. Someone, somewhere, rolls the POO into a nice and neat bolus that begins rolling around. It gets around to just about everyone, even in passing - the spread of POO is more and more noteworthy as more marketers than content creators participate. We get new and improved POO, which is neither. We get more efficient POO. We even get more efficient POOing. But what we don't have is a direct method of dealing with this POO other than ignoring it. In many ways, POO is dealt with like that bad smell in the elevator:
"It smells really bad! Come smell!"
No, thank you. I believe you. I believe it smells bad.
The only way that we have engineered to deal with POO is through time and the creation of more POO. Indeed, there are often blogs dedicated to the latest strains of POO that are as popular as there are people desperate for the next best POO.
The trouble, you see, is that on the Internet POO does not decay... And that is, perhaps, why there is the Cult of POO. The premise seems to be that if one cannot kill POO, it must be worth keeping.
Would that they tried this with their digestive tracts.
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