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- bradspangler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@5JimBob: Jonestown was an example of what happens when people follow insane leaders. As the article makes clear, the people at "the Mesa" have little use for leaders of any sort. Comparing them to an authoritarian cult gets it exactly backwards.
- 5JimBob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@bradspangler: you're quite right. the point I imperfectly tried to make is that there is a huge vacuum here, one that I fear will eventually be filled by someone charismatic and unscrupulous. Humans are social animals and invariably, when we're in a group, rank ourselves according to a hierarchy. Things generally ( but certainly not always) go best overall when we're aware of this phenomenon and incorporate our knowledge of it into the social mechanisms at hand.
The Jim Jones character hasn't shown up yet but I fear it's only a matter of time. It doesn't have to be a Jim Jones, it could be a Charles Manson or a David Koresh.
I still hope that a cultural anthropologist is chronicling events for the record. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That's nothing they have that kind of freedom in Compton.
Stop snitching and supporting the police state........ - 5JimBob, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1This is a classic meta-stable situation, a Jonestown waiting to happen. I hope some cultural anthropologist is quietly mingling with the "community" taking notes. And I hope, for his sake, that he's not caught before he can get the hell out when the roof falls in.
