User:RexPhilosoph

A Little About Me
This is my second incarnation, but I will get to that later. I am a 4th year university student at the University of Victoria... Let me rephrase that, I have been a student for over 6 years and I am finally in the fourth year of some program or another. I have explored Biology, Psychology, History, Commerce and Literature. I didn't go past first year calculus and not so far into other fields of math, but one equation that I've known for some time now is $$Knowledge = Power$$.

A funny thing I have noticed about knowledge is that it is does not necessarily have to be true in order to be considered knowledge. I speak of course of falsehoods, lies or fallacies masquerading as truths, which have just as much power as they are still simply considered "knowledge". Generally, there are those who know this and fight against it, and there are those who know this and willingly perpetuate it for their benefit. To use Plato's analogy of the Cave, one group is working to keep human consciousness imprisoned and enfeebled, to keep us facing the wall of the cave while they hold up props of "knowledge". The other group is working against the status quo, working to free the prisoners from their condition of shackled ignorance.

As a project Wikipedia has great potential, but that potential is for abuse as well as enlightenment. There are topics that are heavily politicized, where a NPOV does not exist even though it is claimed. It is topics such as these where you will find the struggle between the two groups unfolding. Personally, I have been victimized and seen others be vicitimized by the abuse of zealous administrators working together to silence opposition to their vested interests. Having your account deleted by abusive administrators is not a pleasant experience and it flies in the face of what this project represents. It is knowing that this experience exists, that the active supression of discussion and discovery for the essential purpose of holding up props for the prisoners happens, which poisons and diminishes the value of the Wikipedia project.

I consider myself one of those trying to free the prisoners, hopefully I can free enough so I won't be shot by the jailors whilst trying to undo shackles.