The socrates parallel has a different meaning that what caught my eye. I was struck less by the ‘lots of writing = bad’ parallel and more by the ‘lots of writing needs good filtering to find the signal in the noise.’
But now I’m realizing that might be me just coming at it from a modern angle, while the original 1894 author might have just meant ‘lots of writing = bad.’
But now I’m realizing that might be me just coming at it from a modern angle, while the original 1894 author might have just meant ‘lots of writing = bad.’