If you have come to The Wikipedia Review to ventilate your opinions about the phylum or genre of media into which Wikipedia falls, and to do that solely on the basis of the information and knowledge that you currently have — that's okay, people do that. If nothing else, it's good intellectual exercise to articulate one's experiences and to argue on behalf of one's opinions.

But it might be worth your while to do something a bit more productive, namely, to listen to other people's articulations, information, knowledge, observations, and opinions, and to consider the possiblity that some of that manifold of expression may be based on real experiences with the subjects under discussion.

People have a diversity of experiences — experiences of different things altogether and always to a degree different experiences of the same things.

Experience is always an expensive thing to get. People share their experiences in order to save the expense of having to learn everything for themselves. That is one of the reasons why we have our media of communication.

Sometimes the manifold of diverse experience can be integrated, sometimes it cannot.

But it is usually worth a try.

Jon Awbrey

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