Colbert

First off, I'd just like to say I'm a big fan of Colbert's work, and I actually saw this some time ago. I really wondered about it then and it's good to revisit that thought.

I think that Stephen makes an interesting point about truth. Stephen said that "truth" is just a matter of majority consensus, which I think is true to an extent. He even developed his own word "truthiness" which means "things that a person claims to know intuitively or 'from the gut' without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts." (That's from wikipedia.org) I believe we create truth to try to fill a void of what we don't understand. If we consider science for a moment, we could see that a countless amount of scientists develop theories on anything to try to understand mankind. Take, for example, theories on how the Earth developed. There are people who believe that the "Big Bang" theory is the truth. There are others who seriously doubt this idea. Consider the idea of the Earth being round or flat. For a long time, people were convinced that the Earth was flat. What do people have to say about this now? Well, thanks to technology we could see that the Earth is not flat, it is round. There are still people who believe that the Earth is still flat. This is a very small population, but there still people who are thoroughly convinced that the Earth is in fact flat. This is TRUTH to them.

There really is no ethic behind Clobert changing the Wikipedia entry for elephants, but it made a point that could be seen as a metaphor for what life is like today. People are just being spoonfed different beliefs that they are believing. The media publishes information about what is going on in the world and people could interpret in any way they would like. They could even change Wikipedia so many people could think this same way. People could speak opinions, but they should make sure that what they say is founded in some sort of truth and not just made up. Not just in the internet "wikipeida" world, but also in everyday life.