The Form of mediocracy.net

How to navigate Mediocracy.net

Mediocracy.net is set up more like a hybrid of a wiki and a traditional news source. At the top of the site I have different pages that are all related to what I see as the fundamental components of understanding modern politics, especially within the American context. Each of these pages contains an article that I consider a good starting point for understanding their respective topic. The Macro page begins with a discussion of GDP and how government and private surpluses interact with each other. The same sort of form extends to all the pages. These pages will likely have links to the lexicon, a page dedicated to providing consistent definitions for all the essential terms used on Mediocracy.net. New articles will be posted in the feed. The goal here is to create a working system of knowledge rather than a diffuse set of facts looking for a place to call home.

Corrections policy

I understand that placing a corrections policy in the introduction for a site is a bit strange but I do think admitting when you are wrong is pretty important. Above all I see myself as an empiricist and I should have the courage to admit when I goof something up. If a user or an article/book/journal I read corrects a fact or small bit of information that I have posted I will try my best to move the correction to the top of whatever article is corrected. If a new piece of information wholly rebuts a premise or system I will write an article about why I was wrong and that article will be posted to the front page. As time goes on I may dedicate a separate page to catalog all the major corrections made to this website.

Biases

Every news source worth reading has a bias, that being said it is not always a worthwhile or obvious bias.  I will make an effort to discuss the biases of sources I regularly use so that readers have a more complete picture of what topics they are reading and engaging.