leaderless leadership
Oct. 25th, 2011 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anansi133I'm starting to notice the occupy wall street movement being called, "leaderless". And that's an easy concept to misunderstand. If the movement can get the work done without singular personalities rising up and shaping the dialog, that's a good thing. But if people then assume that they don't need to exhibit leadership in their own behavior, then wall street has nothing to fear from this mob.
There's a lively debate right now around the drumming circle
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/25/141688703/occupy-wall-street-drummers-generate-loud-debate
And if the general assembly can demand quiet from its own membership and be ignored, what does that say about their clout outside the park?
Sound pollution doesn't show up the same way that litter and smoke and raw sewage shows up on film, so it's usually ignored, treated as a cost of doing business with the alternative crowd. But it alienates people who want to more than dance.
There's a lively debate right now around the drumming circle
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/25/141688703/occupy-wall-street-drummers-generate-loud-debate
And if the general assembly can demand quiet from its own membership and be ignored, what does that say about their clout outside the park?
Sound pollution doesn't show up the same way that litter and smoke and raw sewage shows up on film, so it's usually ignored, treated as a cost of doing business with the alternative crowd. But it alienates people who want to more than dance.
