User:PolitiCalypso

I used to edit the occasional article on Wikipedia.

I don't anymore.

I don't like the culture and I no longer agree with the philosophy of the site.

As a woman scientist, I don't like being around geekboys who look upon me as nothing but a sexual object because they fancy themselves highly intelligent, scientifically literate, and therefore the only suitable mates for a person like me--and become viciously vengeful whenever women scientists rebuff their inept, narcissistic-at-the-core attentions.

I don't like when the assertions of amateurs, backed up by something they read on the Internet, are considered just as valid as those of credentialed experts in their fields.

I don't agree that there is wisdom in the crowd. There is groupthink and that's about it. Most people are on the left side of the bell curve. I don't really like the new populism at all, in fact, in any form.

I don't like the policy of blocking IPs from Congressional offices because it's a "conflict of interest" while allowing any anonymous ideologue of "the people" to edit on topics that the person has a direct, ideological interest in painting in a positive light. It's actually LESS ethical for an ideological activist to edit a relevant subject anonymously than a Congressional staffer to openly do so. But that's another instance of the "wisdom of the crowds," "power to the people," anti-expert mentality that has taken over this site.

I guess I'm an elitist. I will own that.

I don't intend to edit on this site anymore. I am keeping this account alive because it is the name of one of my blogs, it can be readily associated with my real name, and so I don't want anyone else to claim the username on such a popular site. If the culture and policies of Wikipedia were ever revolutionized to make the site into something other than yet another forum for narcissistic geekboys and "power to the people" anonymous ideological activists to make over in their own image, I might consider returning. But that has not happened, and there is no movement to do so.