After last night's rich sharing by Annie on the tensions in a writer's life (e.g., mainstream publishing and/or self-publishing), I recalled the following from one of my favorite writers...
That still unrecognized prophet, Abbie Hoffman, said, almost forty years ago, that if you want to start a revolution, don’t bother to organize, seize a televisions station. With the internet, we all have our own tv stations and publishing companies and newspapers; we are all our own columnists and investigative reporters. The potential is limitless: Trent Lott was brought down by a blog, all the doubts about the war that are seeping into the general public began online, and just this week Lovely Laura’s Poetry Tea got canceled thanks to an e-mail petition.
--Eliot Weinberger, 2003
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