User:Drjomoe

I was met today with a request from Wikipedia, (which I use daily, and have for the last 14 years, apparently), to make a monetary contribution to the site. 98% of users don’t contribute to the endeavor and, like myself, have relied on magical thinking all these years to preserve the thing.

I decided to change that today and contribute. Thank you for allowing me the privilege of access to the site all these years without the burden of financial responsibility. You’ve been more then principled and fair.

It seems to me, more and more of late, (and this may purely be a function old age), that this world of ours, as evidenced by my complacency, is in Zugzwang. It is my hope that this discrete gesture may inspire others in some small way, shift the karma, and help get it out.

Dr. Martin Luther King once said that the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. He was not being optimistic. He was hoping against hope that people would hold on. I’d like to believe that the zeitgeist Dr. King hoped for, is changing a little, like I did today.

The world should have a Wikipedia in it.

Yours,

Dr. Jomoe