I feel I am being
brainwashed, but in a
healthy, I-know-this-will-benefit-me-some-day kind of way.
I believe
everything2 wants to reshape the
world as
reference librarians! Think about it, in order to
write or
review a
node, you
have to
think of
information and
evaluate its
worth to your
audience, its
source, and the best way to
disseminate it. Then you have to think of as many
related ideas/
things/
people/
places as you can
and how they all relate to each other, (
cross referencing).
Finally, you
organize your information and
contribute it to a
database, (e2). Just like a reference librarian (except for the adding to the database part).
I am still left
wondering though, why reference librarians?
This is all good
brain exercise, I admit...all that cross referencing builds up
dendrite networks in our noodles.
But, is it some
altruistic desire to make us more
competent at taking care of ourselves? Are we being prepared for
alien enslavement on a
planet with no system of
organization?