Especially Relevant Today – THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS
With the advent of social networking, you hear a lot about crowdsourcing, flashmobs, and distributed teams. Although these can be useful, they also have their limitations due to their unstructured nature.
Jo Freeman’s essay was written in 1970 and concerns the feminist movement but it’s message about how unstructured groups can become even more tyrannical than a formal group is well worth remembering. It is a long read but well worth it.
