Wait…What the world is flat?
How do you know?
O, I read it on the Internet duh!
This may seem like a funny concept, or a scene out of the movie Idiocracy.
Though in reality it is the principle argument that Andrew Keen makes in his argument against where Web 2.0 is taking our culture.
Keen believes with no formal gatekeepers the web is not a trustworthy media.
Wikipedia for example, which has become the third most visited site for information, but has no reporters or editors and its information can be changed by anyone anywhere.
Most teachers and professors do not allow students to credit wikipedia as a source when doing research projects, which is alarming because as noted earlier its the third most visited site to gather information, a site that is not even recognized as a credible source in the world of academia.
If enough people dedicated their lives to reporting that the world is flat on the site, years from now kids growing up might learn to believe this absurd theory.
Totally reversing everything that scholars and science have taught us. It makes it to easy to skew information or worse completely falsify facts.
So taking the infinite monkey theorem into consideration, I say lets not be monkeys. Let us all be different animals, I will be an elephant and I will do my best to objectively and morally report sports. You can be whatever you want; you just don’t want to be a monkey. Flamingo perhaps?
