Posted on 03/25/2024 4:30:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the decade I served on a school board, I learned a great deal about group dynamics. The most important lesson, I suppose, is that there are people -- most often highly neurotic people -- who deliberately create chaos. They undermine every effort to rationally deal with issues that require solutions. They violate norms like crediting the work of committees that were designated to analyze what needs to be done and offer solutions for the board to act on, dispiriting those desirous of accomplishing what must be done. They go behind the backs of board members to undercut the systematic workings of the board, and then drag out meetings that should take a few hours into the late night.
In consequence, many just cede power to them rather than endure the endless churning of conflicts, bad decision-making and stirred-up animus. Psychologist Wilfred Bion analyzed group dynamics, something I later wished I had studied beforehand. As I recall the experiment he did, it went like this (much simplified): People were divided into two groups only one of which was without a clear mission of what they were to do. The portion of the group that was charged with a particular task was able to accomplish it. The second group with no such mission defined fell prey to the various emotional drives of the participants.
In my experience, the drive for control by one member caused a significant disruption of the agreed-upon rational basis for achieving our goal and only the fact that the work the mission-oriented committee did was sound and its results beyond credible challenge carried the day. Other times, giving in to a member who insisted upon irrational deference and a chair which was too weak to stick to agreed-upon discussion protocol made meetings...
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KAOS is the enemy of CONTROL.
Dealing with narcissistic sociopaths...
Who tend to gravitate to positions where they have power over others, like government.
Committees are generally a bad idea.
Better to have a single person, who is accountable for results, who can then have advisors.
I once saw a company I work for, go for “management by consensus”. It turned into a dictatorship of the most obstinate.
Dunning-Krueger and Peter Principles apply to them as well.
Very good article with examples of group dynamics. Many evil individuals often bond together into bad collectives, from gangs to school boards to political parties to governments. Identifying those evil individuals is important.
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BTTT
This disruption of society (morals, norms, shared facts) is INTENTIONAL.
First, it undermines the effectiveness of representative government, capitalism, etc, leading to a desire to tear it all down.
Second, it increases the calls for power to be consolidated among a handful of leaders (to get things done) .....which is the antithesis of our limited government.
Finally, it prevents the people from coalescing around strongly supported ideas (border enforcement, voter ID, term limits).
All caused by:
1. Outlawing of dueling.
2. Making general ass kicking prohibitively expensive for anybody but broke drunks and druggies.
3. 2/3rds of women (neurotic/consensus seekers).
4. 90% of sackless beta male passive-aggressives.
But, what do I know and I do not feel strongly about it.
:-)
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