[WikiEN-l] Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wiki...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

How do you have a "mob" and then say "it's nice" ?
By the way Ayn didn't necessarily believe that a "committe" was nice.   A mob 
can be a committee as well.  The underlying point is that only  individuals 
can create true works of beauty.  That to her mind, a  collective can never 
create a work of beauty.  They can however, evidently,  create a "society" *in 
which* artists are free to express their works.  But  it's not the specific 
works that she would like created collectively, only the  environment in which 
those works could be created by invidivuals.
 
That's my viewpoint of her viewpoint.
 
 
In a message dated 9/22/2008 10:34:02 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
elipongo at gmail.com writes:

The  article space is most certainly not controlled by committee; the  real
estate of what's visible to the public in the articles is subject  to
constant struggle and competition amongst the editors to get what they  think
should be up there. We form and disband coalitions and constantly  adapt our
tactics to the environment of our competitors. Thankfully this  competition
is usually undertaken with rational debate (though I think  we've all seen
the occasional lynching, it's all part of being a  mob).




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