In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways. The only way you get a choice in that is if there are paths of feedback that allow you to affect the life of those decision makers and action takers in significant ways. That is what accountability, response-ability, and representative government are all about. Naturally, some people are against that. In the U.S. context that I know about, there has been a concerted campaign for as long as I can remember — but even more concerted since the Reagan Regime — to get The People to abdicate their hold on The Powers That Be and just let some anonymous corpseration send them the bill after the fact. The way I see it, Wikipedia is just another step down that road to perdition.
Jon Awbrey
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