The expression "Publish or perish" doesn't make a lot of sense. Wikipedia's entry: "The phrase is thought to have originated around 1950 with Kimball C. Atwood...." It refers to academia, that one publishes or has no great career. I think it makes more sense in the expression, "Publish or Parish." The trained and credentialed intellectual goes on, in the Victorian era and previous, to a career at a state- or church-supported university or one goes to some poor rural place and survives on donations from the parish peasants. Wikipedia trumps my poor guess. Who am I to counter Wikipedia? I'm just some guy with an opinion. That's the position most of us face when it comes to power within the current make-up of our intelligentsia. The Left, as a rule, comprise such, and outside that, no one is very seriously considered these days. Successful writers are Leftists, as a rule. Until they aren't. The rest of us just aren't. What is it that makes a successful leftard writer? Or makes one fail? And what about our success? What concerns us? Perish or Parish?
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