What point is there in adding to the dubious collaboration already filling our sad sick world?
Fortunately, there are also more enlightened methods of mass change of thinking that are happier in the results, because these processes parallel good Epistemological Methodology (systematic application of principles by which knowledge arises) and/or rational problem solving. Investigation, then, of the success of the latter, must be the best route to choosing the best way to collaborate. For such is at the heart of desirable collaboration. Indeed, consensus is a crucial social institution, but among the highest democratic values is for all social institutions to remain open to criticism, responsible and agile enough for ongoing readjustment and error correction. Indeed, debate even otherwise with consensus is the truest exercise of the true spirit of democracy. And one important feature of free exchange as in brainstorming is that consensus is never made central and, thereby, so important in it’s own right as to become arbitrary and thereby, destructive. Rather, it is unsupported spec
