14 August

A sort of Part 2 from earlier, about whether organisations should have an 'opposition', in the way politics does. Here's the famous separation of powers in our societies. One thing that's not mentioned that I've seen, is that both the parliament and the judiciary are run along exactly these lines - as binary oppositions. In parliament government and opposition, in the law a defence and a prosecution. The 'executive' arm, which is all other things in society, including organisations, isn't organised in that dual way. That's the gap I'm pointing at - that if it were there, we'd have far fewer problems in society. At the moment a lot of the civil strife from that executive arm ends up in parliament or the courts for resolution, because we don't have the mechanisms in companies and elsewhere in society to really fight and argue opposing viewpoints.