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This is true everywhere though, isn't it? It's all just people. Government, families, companies, research labs, law enforcement, universities, religions, poli
by jcims 5y ago
This is true everywhere though, isn't it? It's all just people. Government, families, companies, research labs, law enforcement, universities, religions, political parties, movements, etc.
As a result all of our laws, relationships, products, theories, judgement, pedagogy, spirituality and platforms are composed and interpreted by a dizzying array of perspectives and values. Our brains can't handle the combinatorics, so we just personify them and anyone we associate with them is just a fragment of the whole.
- mycall 5y agoThis is how democracy and quorum works. It is messy, definitely, but if we avoid reductionism to explain the chaos, typically a good solution will emerge given time. Finding which winning singularities to win in is often a money making event.
- denton-scratch 5y agos/quorum/consensus/ A quorum is the minimum number of members that must be present in some body or group for them to be allowed to make decisions. The number is given in the group's articles of association; there's nothing messy about it. A "consensus" occurs when enough members of a group or body agree with a proposal, that the remainder "consent" to that proposal, even if they don't fully agree with it. Consensus is messy, partly because the meaning of the word is open to dispute; and partly because "consensus" doesn't address the case where the group or body is irreconcilably split on the issue at hand. I don't care to address the word "democracy"; that word has as many meanings as there are people on the planet.
- mycall 5y agoYou are correct, consensus is the correct term.