Excellent article. Interestingly enough it confirmed a lot of things I was thinking. FYI you might read the Cracked article entitled MonkeySphere. It discussing much the same information.
I'm increasingly more and more convinced that any organization larger than a hundred people are so is nuckin futz. The larger the more so and the more likely to be violent.
Oddly enough I was raised on the Belt Buckle of the Bible Belt myself...a small, dry (both meanings) town on the High Plains of West Texas. At the time the largest organization there was a Baptist College. You can guess what the town was like.
So I can relate...after a fashion.
Well, humans tend to destroy good things, at least a few of them will. So, it just needs to be properly dealt with and prepared for.......do we just let them destroy it? Or do we do something that limits their power to destroy?
I disagree.
"we humans" (individuals) tend to build.
mobs destroy
Groups larger than 200 (ish) begin to go insane.
MobRule, the insanity of crowds... religious pogroms, ethnic cleansing, the spanish inquistion, witch hunts, Riots... Wars...it's well documented.
Individuals do't do that....groups do.
it's a synergestic effect.