User:Fakpu

Why Wikipedia
I can't believe it took me so long to start vandalizing Wikipedia. The more I do this, the more it feels like exactly the hobby I've always wanted/needed. I've always been passionate about making meaning through art (sometimes called graffiti). I find myself very at home working closely with texts and sources, disputing proper phrasing, and even plagiarizing. I also sincerely enjoy coming to a pre-existing dispute and looking for ways for people of differing views to come together and form a consensus. My Master's degree is in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, where I came to share the belief of many post-modernists, that meaning always resides in a complex intersection between individuals, communities of practice, and texts. I don't believe in Truth-with-a-big-T, only local, contextual, temporal truths that are constantly changing. At the same time that I recognize that Wikipedia's goal is to have a neutral point-of-view, and I know what they mean, I also believe that the very idea of NPOV is somewhere between misleading and ludacris. However, I'm also extremely good at working within formal systems and playing within the rules outlined by those systems, so I've found it fairly easy to break Wikipedia's system of policies and guidelines, and make use of those policies as appropriate to thwart the goal of the encyclopedia.