Okay, that was fun, but threats to society are no laughing matter, so it's back to work for us tireless defenders of the public good —
On another thread we've been discussing the political econony of Wikipedism, mostly still rubbing our eyes with disbelief at the speed with which it transits from archaic feudalism to modern totalitarianism in a blink of those very eyes.
Sic transit, etc.
But there is something more to be understood, something that doesn't quite fit under classical notions of political economy, and it even falls outside the pale of the latest buzz about the information economy, the knowledge proletariat, and all that.
The only halfway fitting analogy that I can think of right now would have to be the realm of drug economy, the politics of addictive substances.
Not really a new idea, of course, but the Church of Wikipediology has definitely cut the sacramental mix with a few new wikipoisons.
Jon Awbrey
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