[WikiEN-l] Re: Uncle Ed reads Irismeister the riot act
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Fri Apr 2 18:44:12 UTC 2004
Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
> At 10:56 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Viajero wrote:
>
>> Ed's behaviour simply confirms my suspicion that there is an
>> authoritarian
>> lurking in the soul of every rightwinger.
>
> This is also unhelpful.
>
> I strongly suspect that there is an authoritarian lurking somewhere in
> *every* human soul, one of the unfortunate impulses we need to guard
> against in ourselves.
I agree. It often takes a great deal of intrapersonal intelligence to
overcome this. I regret that I often see some otherwise highly
respected members of the Wikipedia community become so taken by the
correctness of their own views that they leave very little room for
alternative ones.
Yes, I do see Ed as having a strong tendency to authoritarian
opinionation, but unlike most of the crew in that boat he doesn't insist
on riding the boat to the bottom when it has been torpedoed.
Ec
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