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HalfJoking's profile Stephen G. Barone / 0, Male / Member since October 2008 / Last seen 3 months ago

One of the greatest conceits in the world is thinking that the public-at-large wants to know what you’re thinking about something, when in stark reality the public-at-large doesn’t think about you at all.

This was one of the great services that magazine & newspaper editors used to provide: effectively saving us writers from ourselves. Otherwise, who knows what kind of crap would have filled our nation’s newspaper and magazines under our bylines?

Well, actually we do know.

The Internet has given us the great democratization of writing, so that anyone can write anything at any time and post it, no matter how stupid. Stupidity, however, is in abundant and dynamic supply, so that we now have more of it than we need on the Internet.

Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to contributing.

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