This revisits a topic I've touched on before:
1. What if we bloggers had to pay for each word posted? Would we write less? Use more images and fewer words? Choose our words more diligently? Post less frequently?
2. Similarly, what if we we were charged for each word that we read? Would we be ever more selective in our online reading?
Would a censorship of this sort have a value? (Jorge Luis Borges once wryly commented that the political censorship he lived under forced him to be more creative and canny in expressing himself, though not endorsing or applauding the censorship itself.)
Talk about economies of scale!
Or is it economies of sale?
Would it all be so bad?
(Of course, my questions are brimming with the cock-sure assumption that the stuff of me, my, mine would be worth it, after all. But do we not all make that assumption to some degree?)
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Of course we all make that assumption, otherwise, why would any of us be blogging?
Aren't we just fascinating beyond words?
;o)
But you make me think... what if?
Then words would be precious to those masses for whom they have little or no meaning now.
And, perhaps those with a rich vocabulary and a thin wallet would finally deign to use chatspeak, to say and save.
Scarlett & Viaggiatore
S & V,
I never thought of it quite that way.
pk
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