> Tone-policing, cancel culture, and identity politics are a real problem though The tyranny of structurelessness[0] strikes again. All of the above are sympt

> Tone-policing, cancel culture, and identity politics are a real problem though The tyranny of structurelessness[0] strikes again. All of the above are symptomatic (though sometimes known by different names) of movements whose members disclaim official, understood hierarchies of governance. Members who seem to repeatedly forget, century after century, that power abhors a vacuum, and end up forming increasingly concentric, cryptic, personality-driven, and paranoid structures of influence because whatever the movement's stated objectives may be, someone still has to do the often mundane networking chores necessary to maintain group cohesion. These individuals then become natural nucleation sites for forms of power that have no direct relationship with the acknowledged objectives of the group. Such power expressed through the arbitrary control of prevailing group narrative language (tone policing), gatekeeping of influence (cancel culture), and authority over defining the many subjective unspoken rules by which status is acquired and asserted within or with respect to the group (identity politics being an instance of this class that that is inherited by all groups with a degree of internal diversity sufficient to build multiple coalitions behind). [0] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm