I really should know better by now

[avevale_intelligencer]

I don't know why I keep doing it. I relax, I think I'm among friends, I tentatively bring out an idea that's close to my heart and I watch someone jumping up and down on the tiny shining thing because they choose to believe I've said something quite different. I don't think "Wouldn't it be nice if we could change our attitudes to the way we think about work and creativity" is quite the same as "Creative people should be let off work and everyone else should support them"; but I daresay I read old books of logic. Anyway, I don't suppose it would have cost me so much sleep if I wasn't still raw over the other thing, but as it is I don't even have the energy to be offended over what kind of person they obviously think I am.

Sorry for wasting everyone's time.

Comments

As you wish ...

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... but it's nice to see people enthusiastic and jumping up and down about things ...

... and one thing you can guarantee is that when you raise a subject that's within 10AU of someone's pet hobbyhorse, they'll somehow take the one tangential word in your well-thought out concept and somehow use that as a level to talk about what they want to talk about (I've not read the thread so I *can't* be criticising anyone in particular!)

And you just have to let the nearly-non-sequitors go and not get drawn into arguing with them about a different subject (suggest instead that they might want to take that topic to their own LJ and expand it there)

Hope life is treating you better than usual ...