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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Out of idle curiosity, I looked a the Wikipedia article for Spider-Man. It was surprisingly long, so I copied it into Word and noted that Spidey is worth some 13,540 words. That struck me as a crazy amount of encyclopedia credibility for a comic character.
This led me to wonder. How doe Spider-Man compare in article-length to historical figures? Julius Caesar--12,214 Rosa Parks--9,330 And this struck me as pretty odd. What does this say about our values as a culture? Then I checked two of the most important political figures of the 20th Century. Surely they're worth more column space than Spider-Man. Joseph Stalin--25,237 Mao Zedong--24,858 So the Wikipedia community figures that there's not quite twice as much worth knowing about Mao and Stalin as there is about Spidey. That's not quite reassuring, but at least its something. But then I had a horrible thought. Spider-Man is probably not a particularly important Wiki-figure. What about somebody who really matters? Elvis Presley--26,263 This is the legacy of our culture.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Yet he cannot see his science is dressed up to the nines.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
Don't talk about the culture.
Everything's fine, nothing's changed.
If you need fear to enforce your beliefs, then your beliefs are worthless.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
What's the word count for superman? Batman? Or sticking to marvel comics, Thor?
You've seen the number of pages, posts, books on erdnase, right?
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
Wiki is a relatively new form of cataloging information.
It figures that what people reference most would be what's focused on. It amazes me how much information has been compiled in such a short period of time. Shows what humanity is capable of when it gets to work.
If you need fear to enforce your beliefs, then your beliefs are worthless.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
More about recognizing common interest and useful place to apply specific and writing expertise. A mod/editor from there visited the Café not so long ago. Ambitious card - edit history...
:)
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