Organizational cultures; or, The lost art of the guild

These are thoughts I've been grappling with over several years of active participation in the LessWrong meetup community.

1. Clique, Guild, Cult
2. We live in a society
3. Society is a social construct, pace Arrow
4. Fear of crowding out
5. Call for machers
6. Rubber stamp errors
7. Anti-civicality
8. "Community organizer" is a double oxymoron
9. So are you some kind of communist?