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The most important sort of disobedience is to write essays at all.  Fortunately, this sort of disobedience shows signs of becoming rampant.  It used to be that only a tiny number of officially approved writers were allowed to write essays.  Magazines published few of them, and judged them less by what they said than who wrote them; a magazine might publish a story by an unknown writer if it was good enough, but if they published an essay on x it had to be by someone who was at least forty and whose job title had x in it.  Which is a problem, because there are a lot of things insiders can't say precisely because they're insiders.

The Internet is changing that. Anyone can publish an essay on the Web, and it gets judged, as any writing should, by what it says, not who wrote it.  Who are you to write about x?  You are whatever you wrote.

---who wrote it

officially approved writers = authorized authors?!?  :rolleyes: