Yikes!
Hold on...if his responsibility is payroll...that's one thing. Or maybe advertising? Or facilities, logistics, finance...of course!
If it's editorial or journalistic.
This is a very strange time, though. Can anyone think of another period in history when deconstruction of any meme was so quick and so widespread?
I wonder what I'd be thinking about, say, the Iraq war if the internet wasn't around.
My latest example is the Hamas/Fatah situation. From the news I get a sense of "Two groups of palestinians have been shooting at each other. Our govts. don't like the Hamas group because they say they wish to destroy Israel. As Hamas have beatten Fatah in Gaza our govts. are doing business with a Fatah guy in the West bank."
Huh? Why are they fighting and--an important question--who is supplying these people with arms?
Two seconds later I'm at my first article.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55797
So now I know the americans were offering arms to Fatah. So...who or what is Fatah?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah
Huh? The americans are supporing Fatah? Okay then. Who or what is Hamas?
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/
But there are so many links...so much information. What is interesting, for me, is that Private can read through and find the facts that balance his worldview...
...and then dismiss the "ideologically motivated" information that...well...the bit we don't agree with is disinformation.
And Jerome grows weary of fighting the...lies...for it is being caught out in a lie (Would you like lies with that dot com. Arf!)...that's the humiliating one--your lie broadcast to the world!
And okay, some liars don't care...but I reckon they still do. What mafia boss wants to know that behind his back he is called "Shit for brains"? Well, every one of them wants to know so they can...what? Stop 'em!
Yack yackety yack!
Who knows what the exact truth is with Wikipedia
I read that and thought...you could lose the "with Wikipedia" part. If something is known as an exact truth, how could it not be in Wikipedia? (I'm ignoring marginal articles about such things as Who Is Leader of the Zombie Brain Eaters sect in Yongshei province...and even that, if there is an exact truth, will end up being corrected or...I should say...can be corrected.
Wikipedia is a sort of centralising zone with no centre. For hot topics they have special warnings. I love [citation needed]...sort of like "sez you and, er, who else?" Or it means: "Hey, we know--well, we think we know--that this is correct. If someone knows the original source, please say."
How this will play out, I don't know, but I think it's unique...our new development in history.
And somehow people like Private (and deep in our hearts maybe there is a part of us that will always be Private)...are learning too. The internet is tolerant so I suppose it teaches tolerance. If you're not tolerant, hey! There'll be plenty of websites for the non-tolerant too! And if, after a bout of heavy non-tolerance you fancy a bit of...well...that's Private...but, hey! There are plenty of websites about...well...just about anything...yack yack!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
