Re: Changes for Next Year's Pennsic

In article <128pc16ah2ttm3e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ted Eisenstein <alban@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mikeG wrote:
My opinion: I don't like being presented with a fait-accompli. This
decision was made by a very small group, for a very large group.

That's what happens when you have most any group that's not a pure
democracy: there's bound to be a smaller group running things - and it's
their job to take in information, process it, and, one hopes, come up
with reasonably good decisions.

My son works for a cooperative -- which means, not only does he
work for it, but he is a member of it and does his share of the
administrative duties.

Only he does a lot more than his share of the administrative
duties, simply because most of the members shirk them.

A friend of his, who also works for the cooperative (and does her
share) is of the opinion that cooperatives never last long as
true cooperatives. They either die, or they become oligarchies.
Their organization is getting along nicely towards becoming an
oligarchy, and my son and his friend are going to be among the
oligarchs.

This is, after all, what human societies tend to do. The first
episode of James Burke's _The Day The Universe Changed_ is all
about how humans delegate certain tasks to some of their members,
who become specialists in those tasks, having delegated some of
their *other* tasks to yet other specialists. Someone becomes an
expert law-interpreter and we call him a judge. Someone becomes
an expert healer and we call him a doctor. In theory we could
all do everything for ourselves, at a low level, but we prefer to
let members specialize in different tasks and perform them at a
higher level.

Getting back to Pennsic, the membership as a whole has delegated
the business of running Pennsic to a small group, and with the
burden of hard work and detail-managing that goes with it,
they've also delegated the authority to make decisions. This is
how humans get things done. Most of the delegators, from what
you said, are content with the actions of the delegatees.

Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin Dorothy J. Heydt
Mists/Mists/West Albany, California
PRO DEO ET REGE djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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