you still have to see a real icosahedron

Major seismotectonic belts/'plate boundaries' (broken lines) compared with an icosahedron.^[6] 'Plate boundaries' (i.e. seismic belts) meet coincide very closely with the vertices of an icosahedron, which, like the tetrahedron, is one of the five regular polyhedra or Platonic solids.

But you still have to see a real icosathumb ... And even a real dodecahedron - made of pentagons - is regular, a property that the plaque boundaries do not exhibit.

Plato's

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The last word is for Plato.

Blog culture is sophistry

SunirShah says that Blog culture is sophistry :
Plato ripped apart the Sophists for their deception, their unsubtantive mimickry. Blog culture is sophistry. The passing off of other people's knowledge as one's own; simply copy&paste&link&post. Voila, I am an InstaPundit?
... The very structure of blogs frustrate the Platonic dialectic. They are temporal, personal, authoritative, printed, mnemonic, and ephemeral.

Note the "?", which is old wiki's convention : "this link has yet to be created". One answer ...
The strength of the blog model, is that it gives people incentives for doing something that is valuable to the whole community. When bloggers 'disseminate memes' they disseminate the ideas that are attached to those memes. So acting to their own egoistic motives they generate a value for the whole. -- ZbigniewLukasiak