"Why did the Free Market Moron..."

reprinted from WOID: a journal of visual language

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

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 blogger's diary on DailyKos, 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 blogging on DailyKos 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 online communications on DailyKos 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!)