WOID XVIII-15. "Why did the Free Market Moron..."

Monday, November 19, 2007 11:17 am

Lenny Bruce had it right, almost: There are very few conversations in America that can't be handled with "Yes," "No," and "Imagine if you will a giant invisible hand." Unless it's a mainstream diary, in which case you can skip "Yes" and "No."

And Walter Pater had it right, almost, when he wrote that all poetry aims for the condition of music. All mainstream blogging tends to the condition of dumb-ass one-liners about the Free Market.

It was Matthew Arnold, of course, who predicted that blogging, after a brief Period of Expansion, would move into a Period of Consolidation: all one-liners, all the time, and every one about a giant invisible hand.

Be it resolved, therefore, that all mainstream communications be now explicitly what they've been implicitly. Introducing:

THE FREE MARKET MORON JOKE!

1) Why did the Free Market Moron get arrested for Indecent Exposure?
A: He thought his dick was invisible, too.

2) Why does the Free Market Moron call it a Free Market?
A: He thinks we're also morons.

3) Why does the Free Market Moron want students held back a grade?
A: So they can get ahead.

4) Why do I have to pay the Free Market Moron every time I have safe
sex?
A: That's the bootie of Capitalism!

5) [Come on, everybody!]

- Trotsky the Horse.