[Noisebridge-discuss] You and your pretty little Consensus Process too.

[Moxie Marlinspike]

Hey Molly, you might find Crimethinc's "Beyond Democracy" to be helpful
background information:

http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/beyonddemocracy.php

There are a number of references to larger-scale instances of autonomous
movements, topless federations, and consensus organizations in that
essay, which you could do some follow-up research on.  The Zapatistas,
Mondragon Collectives, and Spanish Anarchists might be good starting
points.  Or even just show up at a NoBAWC meeting in the Bay Area to
talk with folks about how their workplaces differ.

In the end, though, you're probably correct if you're suggesting that
authoritarian decision making processes are faster.

- moxie

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On 02/06/2011 01:30 PM, Molly Bee wrote:
> 
> Hullo Noisies,
> 
> I was puttering about in my mean menial existence far, far away when
> my thoughts turned to NB, as they so often do, and I got to wondering
> about your mystical consensus process.
> 
> It doesn't seem like it scales well.
> 
> I mean, it makes sense, in essence, with three friends on a
> rucksacking trip through Norwiggia or Dutchland or sommat. But when
> there are fourteen clowns, mimes, and adult entertainers
> pogo-sticking around in the fragile wicker basket of a helium-filled
> dirigible? Or, gods forbid, 129 cracker-snacking hackers in a single
> concrete nest woven with wires in an invisible wi-fi tapestry,
> CERTAINLY UP TO SOMETHING, probably making sekrit (miniature) giant
> robots, etc-errata.
> 
> How?
> 
> Sincerely (without wax), Molly 
> 
> 
> 
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