Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tl00288)

In message <3.0.3.32.19971119072748.007fb5c0@imagiware.com>, Eldon B
Tucker <eldon@theosophy.com> writes
>A group -- lodge, organization, even mailing list -- tends to 
>maintain its status quo. Many members are followers, listeners,
>lurkers at meetings. A handful like to monopolize the air time
>and control the direction of discussions and programs. That
>handful is the group's "leadership". It maintains the status
>quo by providing the group with programs along lines that it
>likes and by keeping the group "on topic" or resisting the
>introduction of new ideas by newcomers, if those new ideas
>give the group a new direction. (That new direction is
>perceived as a "takeover" since it may take power away from
>the existing leadership.)

That doesn't happen on ANY of the theos-lists - try it and see!

Alan