Only if we refused to relate or interact on any basis whatsoever could we approximate structurelessness -- **and that is not the nature of a human group.**
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All of these procedures take time. So if one works full time or has a similar major commitment, it is usually impossible to join simply because there are not enough hours left to go to all the meetings and cultivate the personal relationship necessary to have a voice.
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** ayc's personal thought: Being "busy" is a way of signaling harmlessness. Making up or looking for bullshit-job like work for yourself makes you less of a threat.
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When informal elites are combined with a myth of "structurelessness," there can be no attempt to put limits on the use of power. It becomes capricious
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The first is that the informal structure of decision-making will be much like a sorority -- one in which **people listen to others because they like them and not because they say significant things.**
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For those groups which cannot find a local project to which to devote themselves, the mere act of staying together becomes the reason for their staying together. When a group has no specific task, the people in it turn their energies to controlling others in the group.
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his is not done so much out of a malicious desire to manipulate others (though sometimes it is) as out of a lack of anything better to do with their talents. Able people with time on their hands and a need to justify their coming together put their efforts into personal control.
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