User:MtUllaHistorian

Hello, I am Mount Ulla Historian, a self proclaimed title I came up with when I started researching local history and recording it in Wikipedia. I am also interested in American architecture and gardening.

January 6, 2019. In a short time that I have been involved in Wikipedia more than casually, I stumbled upon several phenomena - rude and uncivil men as well as horrendous gaps in knowledge representation in several areas related to history, women, and religion. Poor coverage of religious subjects was the most surprising to me yet can be probably explained by the gap in tech savvy religious people and/or possible policing (is there any?). As I am working on an article about a Christmas song The Dream Isaiah Saw, new world of pus infected wounds of systemic knowledge suppression through the means that rest upon several centuries long assertions of what knowledge is. I came to Wikipedia with a narrow focus of adding just one article on a locally important historical figure that was mysteriously missing from mainstream sources of information. I wound up seeing abyss of ignorance and cultural myths perpetuated in what is supposed to be "objective" reporting of reality if such a thing exists.

My favorite book genre since childhood: reference books and dictionaries.

Areas of interest and/or expertise: epistemology, biases in science, cultural propaganda through science, suppression of knowledge, medicalization and its effects on people and society, food as a complex system, birth and breastfeeding as social and relational phenomena, linguistics, language as means to manipulate cognition, language as means to reinforce cultural values, translation of words vs translation of ideas, history of ideas, historical changes in word meaning, history of medicine and public health. I am in the camp of epistemological anarchism and enjoy the works of Paul Feyerabend.