Occupy Wall Street — On Consensus

All groups run up against Dunbar's number as "the cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships." Overcoming this limitation is the primary challenge to consensual decision-making as groups grow. This presents a challenge to emergent protest organization and coordination that are confronting hierarchical organization and coordination based on the military model. The solution usually lies thorough adopting asymmetry, decentralization, local control, and avoidance of direct confrontation. Occupy is now debating this.

The post also contains a brief history of consensual societies.

Occupy Wall Street
On Consensus