It's been like a week and I already hate Extinction Rebellion
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Their answer to the basic question "who is in charge" is "everyone", and then references five competing centers of power (Guardians, Rapid Response Team, Self-Organising System Team, an independent Counsel, and some representative group from self-selected teams)pic.twitter.com/crZfCSiY8v
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So "anyone can do things in the name of Extinction Rebellion if they agree with and adhere to our principles and values." Who decides the principles and values? Not like this has come up repeatedly in every movement that attempts it, or
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I am particularly entertained to see the movement adopt a decision-making method that destroyed my country (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto …)pic.twitter.com/6RsRsY19nV
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I guess the upshot is, read Zeynep's book on this stuff. It's a how-to manual for networked protest masquerading as an academic work, and a critique of how decentralized movements often fail. There's a free Creative Commons copy linked at bottom!https://www.twitterandteargas.org/
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It might have a chance of working in a universe where people are born with the ability to investigate and draw conclusions without going down a crazy @$$ rabbit hole, but maybe I'm too pessimistic.
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I would take sortition over our half-assed system of elected representation in a heartbeat.
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I would too, if it put people in Parliament or Congress whatever. It's the NGO-mediated drum circle that freaks me out
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