Removed?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/15/11 5:23 AM, spir wrote:
> Agreed. Very much agreed, in fact. Wikipedia is /the/ place for
> innovation to get a chance; probably the only one, even. (esp in our
> money-driven civilisation)

As an aside, it's quite remarkable that such a movement and others 
similar originated in the Capitalist world. History will tell, but I see 
it as possible for the spirit to stay put.

In contrast, in spite of it ostensibly embracing enthusiastic 
volunteerism, Communism has failed to produce lasting trends of such. In 
Romania such a piece of work has been done in 1947 - the 
Bumbesti-Livezeni railroad was done through mostly genuine volunteer 
work. But enthusiasm for the then newly installed (1945) regime faded 
very quickly; the effort has never been replicated, however pallidly. By 
the time I was around, "volunteer labor" was a mandatory chore, and 
people were so used to the concept, they didn't even figure the 
linguistic irony.


Andrei