(about something that happened on) monday punch-in-the-face blogging

following stephen colbert's command last night to alter the wikipedia entry for the word "reality" so that it includes the sentence, "reality is now a commodity," wikipedia pulled up the drawbridge on "reality," "commodity," and "real." this is, i suppose, their right as an entity attempting to dispense verifiable knowledge, but it defies their marxist roots. it also makes them enormous hypocrites, one way or the other; ibm might have been able to write biased things about microsoft that could benefit ibm financially, and bloggers might have been able to rewrite those possibly biased entries while on the microsoft clock, but colbert can't offer people five bucks to write a philosophical statement about society and media that hurts no one and has zero impact on the free market? wikipedia has allowed all sorts of other philosophical explorations into the notion of reality; why not this one? do you think alexius meinong was taken at his word right out of the gate? only we can fully appreciate the nature of our own realities, can we not? perhaps your notion of reality only becomes reality once you "sell" it to someone else, or at least once it sells itself to you. and it's inarguably a mass-produced, unspecialized product (gracias, merriam-webster). so this one sentence should be permitted, even if only when prefaced with the phrase, "stephen colbert posits that . . . ." troubled, i was, and after mulling it over, i've decided that i will punch wikipedia in the face for being infofascists about an idea that no one can claim to know the definitive truth of.

i've also decided to submit the following word and definition to merriam-webster's open dictionary. don't bother trying to rip me off; they've got all my data, and the rights are mine. MINE!!!

colbereality, noun

1: a commodity
2: an entirely subjective reality in which the observer/creator manifests all of his or her desires by unwaveringly asserting the existence of such desired manifestations as truth
3: the realm in which far-right conservative pundits and all human beings between the ages of one and five exist

example sentence:
don't pester me with the findings of the iraq study group; your namby-pamby liberal delusions have no power in colbereality!

take that, wikipedia. all lexicographers accept that language is fluid and evolves over time. dare to take that flying leap into the nineteenth century and let usage dictate definition--by letting me and stephen colbert dictate usage.* that's the wiki way. become what you are.




* this statement was made by a person ensconced in colbereality.