@civodul I think (or hope) authoritarianism in communities and organizations is just a teenage sickness, manifested by people's irrational desire for the community as a "virtual entity" or a "thing in itself" to "exist", to be "constituted", and for its members to "align" and "share values", to be homogeneous, all of which requires setting up "standards" and "filters", and institutionalizing "rules"