Here's the essay: https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/aut...
I was just involved in some local political drama that was, if anything, worse than what happened here. And ignoring the Perl community as a consequence. So I was quite surprised to see a news article about all people I know, all of them friends. I really think the months of isolation are getting to all of us psychologically. That and the fact that the color of the sunlight has been subtly wrong all summer long from the smoke. We are children of a dying planet.
I don’t know how to fix it, but I do think everyone everywhere needs to take some time and calm down if they haven’t already. I love involved in this, and hope that we can all have a beer together once again.
That sounds like a recipe for a cult.
People like to know what is and isn't okay, and leaving it up to someone's feeling, even if you generally trust that person, makes the whole thing very fragile.
Monarchy in one form or another has lasted thousands of years. It does have the succession problem (or the Bus Factor), but requiring the monarch to designate a successor is the usual solution to that.
There's a simple CoC that neatly solves all these problems, and it's small enough to put on a footer for every page of every document:
You're asking "how do we know what asshole-ness consists of?"The answer is that you know the leader and you trust them. If you don't, you should leave.