[FYI]: Clay Shirky on group dynamics

From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 21:23:28 MDT

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    This seems interesting

    <<The best explanation I have found for the ways in which this pattern
    establishes itself, the group is its own worst enemy, comes from a book
    by W.R. Bion called "Experiences in Groups," written in the middle of
    the last century.

    Bion was a psychologist who was doing group therapy with groups of
    neurotics. (Drawing parallels between that and the Internet is left as
    an exercise for the reader.) The thing that Bion discovered was that the
    neurotics in his care were, as a group, conspiring to defeat therapy.>>

    http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

            -Mike 

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