Show #92: Wikipedia Man Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia founder and mainman (or ex-mainman) Jimmy Wales joins us to talk about open source philosophy, objectivism, digital maoism, and how Wikipedia’s gonna like wipe out Google in 5 years (or not)
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia | Digital Maoism, by Jaron Lanier | Our Right to Death
So, I was inspired to go read Wikipedia’s entry on objectivism after listening to this podcast. And, after reading it, it seems it’s even worse than I remember from previous forays. Or maybe it’s just Rand’s shrill denunciations of anything that might seem similar, like anarchism or libertarianism.
It seems an interesting philosophy for a group of people maybe starting a new world somewhere. Without pre-existing conditions of oppression it might actually work, but looking around me I don’t see too many people that aren’t coerced in one way or another into their social and economic relationships. I don’t see the freedom they talk about in our society.
Comment by Planet B — January 25, 2007 @ 1:14 am