WARNING: IRONY ALERT Ok, so we have a dead person, writing to the future, telling the future to speak, think, and write -for themselves-… and then we have an electronic person, copying that to his 30,000 followers, many of whom -re-copy- that so that they are copying copies of a dead guy asking them NOT TO COPY COPIES and then they just KEEP COPYING THIS madly… not thinking for a moment that copying it is the opposite of what it is asking them to do… and, probably, entirely incapable of both the thought and the gesture… at least until someone alerts them. That’s me. So… When dead people exhort you to be original, kindly refrain from copying their words as that is an insult at once to their intentions, your audience, and your own intelligence.

WARNING: IRONY ALERT

Ok, so we have a dead person, writing to the future, telling the future to speak, think, and write -for themselves-… and then we have an electronic person, copying that to his 30,000 followers, many of whom -re-copy- that so that they are copying copies of a dead guy asking them NOT TO COPY COPIES and then they just KEEP COPYING THIS madly… not thinking for a moment that copying it is the opposite of what it is asking them to do… and, probably, entirely incapable of both the thought and the gesture… at least until someone alerts them. That’s me. So…

When dead people exhort you to be original, kindly refrain from copying their words as that is an insult at once to their intentions, your audience, and your own intelligence.