**the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others**. This hegemony can be so easily established because the idea of **"structurelessness" does not prevent the formation of informal structures, only formal ones**
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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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