Wikiality (as seen on the Colbert Report :forgot the date:)
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007I am a firm believer that what ever is written on wikipedia should be taken with a grain of salt. When you have multiple contributors of facts, it is chaos. Because as humans what we take as facts tends to depend on our geographic location and culture and language.
Wikiality is really reality based on wikipedia. And I completely agree with what Colbert says in his segment “Word” . Reality in our day and time really has become a commodity. If you wish to manipulate people’s view or harbringer some doubts on longheld convictions, use wikipedia. This is an immense show of how one’s ideas and thoughts can be manipulated with a click of a button, a stroke of a key. Probably not of people of my generation but the newer generation that has practically lived on the internet. That is rather a scary thought. Children doing reports or basing their knowledge on what wikepedia says…
As long as people do not verify truths, they will be keep living in wikiality.
And that my friends is a place for fools.