Q: Do lemmings commit suicide?

A: Yes.  No.  Ah, who cares?

Lemmings

According to some, Wikipedia is regulated by ‘the wisdom of the crowd’ - a group’s innate tendency to avoid error and smooth out the distortion of knowledge.

Nancy Williams said in her podcast that Wikipedia defined ‘truth’ as ‘knowledge about which there is no serious dispute’.  Wow.  So something can be true because nobody can be bothered to contest it?  A quick look at Wikipedia and I couldn’t find that definition.  Ah.  Did she say it?  Did I make it up?

All I found was a mass of clever academic stuff I personally couldn’t be bothered to read, let alone dispute.  Clearly someone was bovvered and truth itself was on hold while some clever people disputed it.  Whew.

It’s a worrying world… isn’t it?  I don’t know what to believe.  Most of us will believe anything.  We’re all lemmings!  Except lemmings don’t commit suicide, they never have and never will.  It’s just that not many people can be bothered to point that fact out.

October 7, 2008 | Filed Under business insight 

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