as long as five minutes. The underlying ideals are a
common thread in > many such religious or political movements. Most of these devolve
into > either tyranny or ineffectuality.
Interesting point! The historical record here is somewhat worrying. I can't count
myself among the knowledgeable in terms of cultural studies, but off the top of my head
the examples I can think of seem to have a high correlation with large stacks of bloated
bodies.
On another note, I grew a little worried after some minor poking about. Thomas, I looked
over your Contribs and found that you have made only 21 mainspace edits since the start of
the year, and 10 of those were marked "minor". In that same time you made 46
edits to user talk pages, 121 edits on the Wikipedia namespace, and 45 to Wikipedia talk
pages. That's a ratio of 10 to 1.
To me this suggests your primary interest in the Wikipedia is to use it as a social
networking tool. There's nothing wrong with this, but I think you'll agree that
that's not the primary purpose of the system. Perhaps your frustration comes from
attempting to use the Wiki for a task it was never intended to support? This strikes me as
akin to blaming a hammer for not being a very good screwdriver.
Maury
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