Quote of the Day
Aaron Lake Smith:
The Soviet Union, it must be remembered, was a regime founded by freelance writers and editors. In other words, a nightmare.
Nice. And there’s more:
Pamphleteers, autodidactic theoreticians, critics, publishers of small journals, hot-take artists, takedown artists, and failed poets who’d reinvented themselves as labor organizers—fractious and at constant war with one another, literary people through and through.
So is the corollary the United States, with the Federalist Papers serving as the ancient equivalent to the blogosphere?
My first thought on reading this was what about Thomas Payne? I don’t think that being a writer automatically deserves a condemnation, it depends what the writer writes.