Re:Wikipedia edits apparently declining, peaked in early 2007
by pg on Friday October 12, 2007 @12:00PM
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Intelligent people didn't just flock to art and the humanities in the Renaissance. They also flocked to math and engineering and finance. The reason we now think of Renaissance people doing art is that their art is better than ours and is still the big draw in museums, whereas they don't have anything to teach us about engineering.
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Re:Wikipedia edits apparently declining, peaked in early 2007
by Alex3917 on Friday October 12, 2007 @12:05PM
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Excellent point. Do you think the basic premise, that intelligent people flock to intellectually interesting things (but that those things change over time) is reasonable?
It seems to me that when our system of government was new it really was the most interesting thing going on so it attracted a lot of super smart people. Now, not so much. Of course part of it is that politicians have figured out it's easier to get elected if you pander to the lowest common denominator, but that still doesn't explain why a good percentage of them don't know how to use email.