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Off My Soapbox of Self Righteousness

By Nick Hodge | May 28, 2009

I love throw­ing words and ven­acu­lar phrases together. This stems from the power of Split Enz to cre­ate visual imagery from com­mon say­ings. An extreme example: Another Great Divide (Judd/Finn/Rayner/Gillies)

Now how can I fig­ure this equa­tion, if multiplication’s the rule /
You keep sub­tract­ing me from you, and it just doesn’t add up at all

It should be fur­ther noted that there is always a Finn song for every occa­sion. Thanks @mediamum!

In the instance of Off My Soap­box of Self Right­eous­ness, relates to battles and dis­cus­sions that rage daily. Like all fam­ily dirty laun­dry, the exact nature will remain confidential.

But on a lar­ger scale, it is my opin­ion that social media (whatever that is) is being mis­un­der­stood; or worse, mis-used by vari­ous less Cluetrained people. My fear is that the forces of old­skool will water down the poten­tial for massive change that is blos­som­ing. There are skir­mishes being fought daily. The wider com­munity does not see nor hear of these.

Sadly, those on the internal fir­ing line are also cop­ping friendly fire. Just sayin’

The strange­ness is made more fic­tional when I have an internal voice that is shout­ing, not whis­per­ing, you’re also doing it wrong. There is a high-wire act going on in my head, and the fin­gers of san­ity may be slowly let­ting go.

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