> As an active Green, I'm increasingly finding the GP insistence on
> consensus
> and a bottom-up model almost guarantees things can't get done fast and
> anything even vaguely controversial will never pass.
>
> Sigh.
Not one of the pieces available on their website, so buy the issue for $4.95 and help out this magazine, one of the better lefty rags put out by 20-somethings. <URL: http://www.clamormagazine.org/issue20.html > The Tyranny of Consensus: Examining consensus decision-making M. Treloar Cf. "The Tyranny of Structurelessness, " by Jo Freeman. <URL: http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/structurelessness.html > -- Michael Pugliese
"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted at each other, as if we were in a madhouse." -Tolstoy