Strategy

I find it interesting how often we use strategy in our day to day lives. Though we don’t often consider the things we do as strategic assemblages, but nearly everything falls into this category. We are like cats out hunting mice. When you consider when and where to shop, or park your car there is usually a strategy involved.

We try to shape our environment to suit our needs. It often becomes like a game where there are winners and losers. We don’t like to be bested.

I even notice this with comments on blogs. I see bloggers get very defensive when people comment on their blogs. I find it especially interesting when you read a comment that someone has made and the blog author returns to delete the comment. Some employ the strategy of moderation; only allowing comments they approve to be view by others. I don’t quite understand this. Is it that they don’t have enough confidence in their own ideas and opinions that they can’t step up to the challenge when someone confronts their stand on issues.

I admit that sometimes I’ll post something knowing full-well that I’m stepping in a huge dung pile and I wait on the side line with a cricket bat. Though, of all the comments I’ve fielded here over the years, I don’t think I’ve ever had what I would consider an abusive comment. Some readers give me shit from time to time and I reply to them as would a monkey in a zoo, throwing feces back at them.

That’s my strategy.