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by Brad WarbianyAhh, the left… When life deals you lemons, you advocate a Federal Lemon Rationing Board:
Personally, I would love a legal cap on the number of words a blogger is allowed to produce per day. I’m privileged to have a job that I really enjoy. But at the same time, I would prefer to write somewhat less—this pace is stressful and doesn’t leave me as much time to pursue other projects and interests. But though I would prefer to write somewhat less, I have a stronger second-order preference to produce a blog that’s competitive with other major offerings on the internet. And over the years competition between bloggers has led to escalating word-counts. The resulting situation isn’t terrible, there are lots of people you should cry for before you get to me, but basically we bloggers are engaged in a red queen’s race where we all need to keep trying harder and harder just to maintain our positions. A cap would be helpful.
I’m sure, I’m sure, that this was nothing more than a flippant aside from Yglesias. But it belies a certain technocratic believe in central planning rather than freedom, and simply cannot go without comment. A word cap? A word cap?! Are you f’ing serious? There — that is all.
Hat Tip: Kevin Drum
This is one of the reason that MY is virtually unreadable. His writing is sprinkled with this kind of nauseating longing for the state. Sometimes its flippant or silly but most of the time he seems dead serious in his worship of government as the solver of all problems.
Comment by Ross — April 9, 2009 @ 2:43 amHaha, gave you a thumbs up in SU for this.
Comment by Patrick — April 10, 2009 @ 8:27 pm