Shit. You mean I have to write?

Via The American Scene, this depressing news from Will Wilkinson:

When I was a teenager, I had a fanstasy that I could get paid or famous simply from having interesting ideas. It turns out people won’t pay you for interesting ideas unless you show up at a certain place and at a certain time to express them verbally in an entertaining format, or unless you write them down. It’s hard for me and not at all as nice as doing the backstroke through Platonic heaven.

Unfortunately for this aspiring journalist/scholar/intellectual/guy who writes for a living, this is very true.