The initial sections are a bit dry, yes. I would suggest skipping to "Deference to Authority" and "2012 Pycon Code of Conduct" and "2012 Pycon: Steve Holden's One Eyed Snake".
Zed Shaw accurately predicted the cancellation excesses of 2020 up to at least 2024 using basic reasoning about group dynamics and a concrete example from 2012. The inner circle is always protected and can do whatever it likes. He was wrong about all core devs being protected. The inner circle is very much a subset.
To this end, I've long held that Zed Shaw's blindness was in his misunderstanding of how authoritarian inner sancta tend to work in times of social or ideological crisis. Some protection happens, but the lion's share of the work undertaken is purification, especially when the list of targets external to that inner sanctum has been exhausted.
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The initial sections are a bit dry, yes. I would suggest skipping to "Deference to Authority" and "2012 Pycon Code of Conduct" and "2012 Pycon: Steve Holden's One Eyed Snake".
Zed Shaw accurately predicted the cancellation excesses of 2020 up to at least 2024 using basic reasoning about group dynamics and a concrete example from 2012. The inner circle is always protected and can do whatever it likes. He was wrong about all core devs being protected. The inner circle is very much a subset.
To this end, I've long held that Zed Shaw's blindness was in his misunderstanding of how authoritarian inner sancta tend to work in times of social or ideological crisis. Some protection happens, but the lion's share of the work undertaken is purification, especially when the list of targets external to that inner sanctum has been exhausted.