diff --git a/scaling-community-decision-making/drupal-community.md b/scaling-community-decision-making/drupal-community.md index 0287d98..4b9e8ca 100644 --- a/scaling-community-decision-making/drupal-community.md +++ b/scaling-community-decision-making/drupal-community.md @@ -119,4 +119,11 @@ some very smart people— and they feel blocked > almost everyone nowadays insists that participatory democracy, or social equality, can work in a small community or activist group, but cannot possibly ‘scale up’ to anything like a city, a region, or a nation-state. But the evidence before our eyes, if we choose to look at it, suggests the opposite. Egalitarian cities, even regional confederacies, are historically quite commonplace. Egalitarian families and households are not. -David Graeber and David Wengrow, "[How to change the coures of human history (at least, the part that's already happened)](https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/ )" (2 March 2018) accessed 2018 December. \ No newline at end of file +David Graeber and David Wengrow, "[How to change the coures of human history (at least, the part that's already happened)](https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/ )" (2 March 2018) accessed 2018 December. + + +> Term "General Assembly" gave me anxiety – and it did go the same way – whoever happened to be there… [dominated discussions and decision-making]. + +(An organizer in the Portland ICE building shutdown effort. Personal notes.) + +