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yes, but riddle me this:
| how many knees could a knee jerk jerk
| if a knee jerk could jerk knees?
jon awbrey
Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Jon Awbrey wrote:
<snip>
If you have heard this before, then
you should think about the fact
that you keep hearing it.
From [[WP:RAUL]]...
Extreme Unction's first law: If enough people act independently towards
the same goal, the end result is indistinguishable from a conspiracy.
Corollary: In any sufficiently large social endeavor, there will always
be some subset of people who fail to understand this, and who will see
conspiracies and cabals around every corner whenever their views fall
into the minority.
Corollary: As the number of people who independently conclude that
someone is a disruptive jerk increases, the likelihood of that person
actually being a positive, constructive contributor who's merely run
afoul of the "ruling elite" decreases. Not that there was ever a big
chance of that to begin with.
Corollary: The people who most need to understand this law and its
corollaries never will.
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