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Jeremiah Cornelius (137)
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"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in . . . to kind of catapult the propaganda."
--George W. Bush, May 24, 2005
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
"Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word "safe" that I wasn't previously aware of."
--Arthur Dent
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
--Thomas Paine
"I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment."
-- Karl Barth
--David Korten
Journal of Jeremiah Cornelius (137)
Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Banned from Site
"On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert addressed the online resource Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can read or edit. Colbert praised Wikipedia for "wikiality," the reality that exists if you make something up and enough people agree with you - it becomes reality. Colbert's subsequent examples to prove "wikiality" would cause chaos on the site, and lead an administrator to subsequently block his account."
Did you happen to see (Score:2)
Steven Colbert (Score:2)
After I read "Blacklisted by History" by Evans, I took a gander at the Joseph McCarthy page.
Check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_mccarthy [wikipedia.org]
Then browse
http://www.conservapedia.com/Joseph_Mccarthy [conservapedia.com]
Yeah, cognitive dissonance: yeah!
Wikipedia is great on science and math topics, and otherwise amounts to a good index for further research.
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His methodology was still justifiably compared to a witch-hunt, and relied on innuendo and "chilling-effect" in a way that subverted democracy and due process. He promoted the injury of innocents in his zeal, and led to excesses that resulted in outcomes similar to those in the Stalinist vision he feared.
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I think that he was arguably a cure worse than the disease.
What is utterly fascinating is the rareity with which anyone is willing to review the facts of the matter.
Now, Evans, the author linked above, is rather sympathetic, and focuses very narrowly (arguably for space reasons) on the facts, with little analysis of the person.
Looking forward to getting my c
wikipederasty (Score:2)
Wikipedia has done irreparable harm to its own credibility, possibly permanently, with their lowest commons feudalism.
In a content arbitration I recently visited, which occurred in February, 2008, can be found what may well be the best instance of self-abnegation I've ever seen.
For those who do not know, one of the WikiWeaselWays to make a determination of what prevails in a content dispute is Wikipedia:Verifiability [wikipedia.org] (WP:V). I describe it as weaslie, because I've yet to see any equality or standardisatio