Wikipedia: A Threat To Civil Society, No More Monsieur Nice Guy Options Rating

[Jonny Cache]

No More Monsieur Nice Guy

After all this time, I get the feeling that many people, even many denizens of The Wikipedia Review, fail to comprehend the magnitude of the threat to Civil Society that is posed by Wikipedia and its ways.

And every time I get a glimmer of hope that Wikipedians themselves might just get their ways back on the path to recovery of humane good sense � well, they never fail to dash those hopes back into the mud of what they seem bound and determined to remain.

In order that some of you who know me best will understand the change in tactics that I must now undertake, I will try to lay out as clearly as I can why I think that Wikipedia and its ways pose the kind of danger to society that all people of good will must eventually oppose.

Jon Awbrey


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Let us continue with our study of the Social Contract between the Pusher and the Junkie.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness. . . . Most survivors do not remember the delirium in detail. I apparently took detailed notes on sickness and delirium. I have no precise memory of writing the notes which have now been published under the title Naked Lunch. The title was suggested by Jack Kerouac. I did not understand what the title meant until my recent recovery. The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch � a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

� William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

If you find the analogy too sinister for your taste, feel free to substitute Spider and Fly.

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Let us continue with our study of the "social contract" between the pusher and the junkie.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness. . . . Most survivors do not remember the delirium in detail. I apparently took detailed notes on sickness and delirium. I have no precise memory of writing the notes which have now been published under the title Naked Lunch. The title was suggested by Jack Kerouac. I did not understand what the title meant until my recent recovery. The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch � a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

� William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

If you find the analogy too sinister, feel free to substitute Spider and Fly.

Jonny (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/cool.gif)

Begin with the notion of exploitive power imbalance. Add a mutual desire for discretion and relative long term stability. Mutual external threats to the relationship builds an outlaw ethic between the players. Finally opportunities for the less powerful participant to betray and inform on the more powerful in situations of peril.

[Jonny Cache]

Begin with the notion of exploitive power imbalance. Add a mutual desire for discretion and relative long term stability. Mutual external threats to the relationship builds an outlaw ethic between the players. Finally opportunities for the less powerful participant to betray and inform on the more powerful in situations of peril.

Yes, all of that, but you are pushing me ahead of the story at a time when I'm moving kinda slow � bad effects of working through the weekend, I guess, as it feels like Friday to me now, and I've got that urge to be more silly than serious.

The missing piece of the puzzle right now is the engine that drives the whole economy on its weary way to hell � a little thing that Burroughs calls the The Algebra Of Need.

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