{"id":20967,"date":"2015-06-09T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20967"},"modified":"2015-06-09T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:53:55","slug":"why-the-consensus-process-has-a-poor-track-record-in-activist-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/06\/09\/why-the-consensus-process-has-a-poor-track-record-in-activist-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Consensus Process Has a Poor Track Record in Activist Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2015\/06\/why-the-consensus-process-has-a-poor-track-record-in-activist-movements.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Naked Capitalism article\">Why the Consensus Process Has a Poor Track Record in Activist Movements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf the forty-year persistence of consensus has been a matter of faith, surely the time has now come for apostasy. Piety and habit are bad reasons to keep using a process whose benefits are more notional than real. Outside of small-group settings, consensus process is unwieldy, off-putting, tiresome, and ineffective. Many inclusive, accountable alternative methods are available for making decisions democratically. If we want to change the world, let\u2019s pick ones that work.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is short on listing the techniques that work, but we shouldn&#8217;t fault the article for that.  It is valuable to be able to see a problem that others have not seen so well, end explain its origins and symptoms. Coming up with definitive and workable solutions to these problems is a much rarer talent than is the already rare talent of identifying a problem few others can see.  In other words it is too much to expect that everyone who can articulate a problem can also find a solution to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Why the Consensus Process Has a Poor Track Record in Activist Movements. If the forty-year persistence of consensus has been a matter of faith, surely the time has now come for apostasy. Piety and habit are bad reasons to keep using a process whose benefits are more notional than real. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20969,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20967\/revisions\/20969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}