[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee elections, 2005

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:

>And those who think this is a bad thing, an avoidable thing or
>something we should pretend doesn't happen are blinding themselves and
>heading for trouble. A hierarchy will happen whether you like it or
>not, because humans are involved; politics starts with two or more
>people in a room, anywhere. Pretending it's not there makes it
>poisonous, not nonexistent.
>
>If you don't have a structure then one will form out of your sight and
>bite you in the arse. "If the movement is to move beyond these
>elementary stages of development, it will have to disabuse itself of
>some of its prejudices about organisation and structure. There is
>nothing inherently bad about either of these. They can be and often
>are misused, but to reject them out of hand because they are misused
>is to deny ourselves the necessary tools to further development. We
>need to understand why 'structurelessness' does not work."
>
It happens repeatedly in many circumstances.  People don't participate 
because they see an organization as "political" in whatever the worst 
sense of that word may be.  By failng to participate they allow the 
politics to happen, and they become part of the problem.

Ec