The Economic Libertarian

I’ve spent a few months by now trawling blogs for various things. Ron Paul is a big one. The blogosphere has all the updates on him.It’sall pretty easily accessible through sites like Technorati. I’m discovering something through this though. Most blogs are dull.

It isn’t that they aren’t covering sufficiently interesting events. This whole Ron Paul Revolution thing is exciting. It’s airing out economics ideas that don’t otherwise get a lot of thought and debate. I love that. (Look at the site and its content. I’m an econo-geek.) It’s also more generally showing how popular conservative and libertarian ideas can be. Perhaps best of all, it’s identifying these traits (again) as what our nation was founded on. It’s legitimizing state’s rights liberalism for both the classical liberal and contemporary liberal kinds of politics too. Ron Paul is bringing state’s rights out of the era of the Confederacy and into the modern day where it belongs.

So yeah. There’s a lot to cover. There are a lot of issues at stake, not just one or two. We live in interesting times (and are finding out why ‘I hope you live in interesting times’ is a traditional curse, not a blessing). Yet blogs are dull.

There are exceptions, of course. People who write about topics that aren’t getting a lot of airplay but still link solidly in with the big issues of the day, they’re not dull. People who write about the big issues of the day but do it from a personal standpoint aren’t dull either. People who write about the big issues of the day from a new perspective aren’t dull, though that’s harder to do than the first two options.

So my suggestion for the blogosphere is to stop parroting other blogs or reposting material from elsewhere. Write something completely new that hasn’t been written before. If it was inspired by something else, link to it. If you’re writing something to popularize another piece, talk about your thoughts on the piece, THEN link to it. Even three sentences on the piece from a personal perspective makes it less dull. When you have something completely new, take a hyperlink shotgun to your posts so they’re well-sourced and provide other reading material.

Oh, and remember that state governments are easier to influence than the federal government. Vote Ron Paul and increase civilian control!

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