User:Doctor Dark/draft

I’ve had to fight back against the imposition of absolutely pointless bureaucracy. It has been like the scene from Douglas Adams’ “Hitch-hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy” where they task the hair-dressers with discovering fire, so they form the Fire Discovery Subcommittee who then decide they need to do consumer focus groups to decide how best to market fire... What was so funny about the Fire Discovery Subcommittee is that committees are a luxury you get once you have a society stable enough for them. Look at any successful open source project and you’ll find few if any committees or Councils or quorums or any of that faff. That is a feature, not a bug. I’m not saying we don’t need those things. But we don’t need them now. What we need are sensible, mature people who can make a decision without drama and bickering. Such people exist, and they are leaving the project in droves. What are left are a few people hanging on to hope (and a fair bit of paranoia too) and a lot of bureaucracy trolls. While Wikipedia may go too far towards anarchy, Citizendium has gone too far towards bureaucracy way too early.