George F. Will

I think I understand what George F. Will is going through right now.

I wish I didn't.

Once, I thought I was writing for an audience of people with a principled committment to a free economy and an aversion to centrally planned decision making..

I thought I was writing for readers who wanted to restore civilized norms.

I didn't think they just wanted an oversized angry personality who would violate those norms, but take on the establishment.

I didn't think that the readers would want to go for easy answers and bling over hard work and building a movement.

I was wrong.

The desktop Linux audience, which I thought was out there, went the same way as George F. Will's principled conservative audience.

I want the desktop Linux users back, and I want George F. Will to get his principled conservatives back. But maybe people were never who we thought they were to begin with.

Syndicated 2016-05-01 12:51:53 from Don Marti