Wikipedic An Attack On True Relational Communication

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2018/12/03/dr-malcolm-kendrick-deletion-from-wikipedia/

Insofar as there is the power to frame, direct or control the narrative of a common currency of exchange, I feel it matters as an attack on true relational communication.

Assets such as wikipedia files are used to support an official reality - which it the one that can redraw the law to out you are as a cholesterol denier with actual penalties in terms of social exclusion. 

I agree with you that it is a waste of time to engage in wikipedia as if it was an independent endeavour running on principles of openness and transparency.

Mainstream news has a share of captive intelligentsia - who are too invested in a society that supports their own achievements to question more deeply and upset their own apple cart. An example I often meet is in seeing corruptions as localised bad apples rather than systemic and in other arenas than their own.

Corrupted power has always used deceit to maintain its claim to allegiance - along with force and terror of course. 

My sense is that exposure does lead to a withdrawal of allegiance and a more critical awareness.

If we value truth as our own self-honest capacity to 'navigate' or find our balance points in life - then we learn painfully that simply following anyone is a form of sleepwalking at best.

Regardless all the apparatus brought to bear in arriving at a decision, I am of the opinion that the intuitive is a more direct route - but that the intuitive/intellectual are two poles that best blend and work together in unified purpose - as the parts of our body. One without the other can be very wrong - because you can smell a rat, know it to be false and opt for a completely erroneous narrative in reaction. Intellect without intuition can seriously argue its own non existence by framing itself or any facet of itself - out of the picture.

Living knowingly under a soft tyranny (with hard results) is different than in the bubble of its narrative identity management system. The former is to be the reminder to vigilance and wakefulness and the latter a sort of anaesthetised symptom suppression.

Being able to see or recognize the difference is a real choice.

I just trialled wikipedia and chose 'freedom' - had to get past a begging letter - as if it would be allowed to fail. Sooner one of the banks! But playing the poor man gives its contributing supporters a 'moral' investment of identity that cannot but extend as a trusted relationship or source.

Anyway it is only 'free' to think the thoughts that its brain is deterministically thinking. It would be comical - but also tragic in consequence.

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Free will:

In philosophical discourse, freedom is discussed in the context of free will and self-determination, balanced by moral responsibility.

Advocates of free will regard freedom of thought as innate to the human mind, while opponents regard the mind as thinking only the thoughts that a purely deterministic brain happens to be engaged in at the time.

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