[lojban] Lojban's leadership and how I don't give a shit about it

["'Wuzzy' via lojban" <lojban@googlegroups.com>]

The actual question to me is weather Lojban *needs* some kind of
leadership.

To give the leadership as you described to a single person also has 

I disagree with the voting in itself and I think it’s nonsense. 
It is completely meaningless to me. Even if selpa'i gets elected to
… well … the leader of Lojban xD … I won’t neccessarily recognize
his authority. Simply because nobody can tell me how to use any
language! :P
(But I try hard to stick to standards, so I can be understood.)
Accepting the voting process
in itself would mean I first recognize YOUR authority to cast out
a vote and to claim success or failure of that vote afterwards.
When do you think is the vote successful, anyways? Over 50%?
Over 66.666%? When does the vote even end? Which votes do even count?
Etc. etc. etc.
Hey, even I could start a vote today and get major support, but
that does not neccessarily mean the voting result is reasonable.
Any kind of democracy is based on a logical fallacy. Just because
many people are in favor of X, it does not mean X actually makes sense.

And before you ask, no, I also never recognized R.L.Powell as a leader.

Maybe selpa'i will flesh out some good proposals or improve existing
ones. Maybe I will support them or not. I don’t know, I haven’t looked
into many of them. Maybe I shoulod change that?
But no matter the proposals, I accept selpa'i as a Lojbanist, but
I don’t accept him as a leader.

I value proposals on how good they are, not solely on where they come
from. It is true that selpa'i has a long history in Lojban, but this
alone does not justify as him or anyone else being a leader.
In my eyes leadership is irrational. You suggest that way to go to
resolve dispute is to install a leader. But in reality, a leader
would be simply just another party, possibly arguing for another
position. But the leadership position is somehow accepted as “more
valuable” as the other positions. Sorry, but if you want to convince
ME that <INSERT PROPOSAL HERE> is good, you’d have to bring better
arguments than “<INSERT LEADER HERE> said it!”. This is the reason
why I think it is irrational.
And even if that leader has a long commitment to a topic, that does not
necessarily mean that leader would continue that way. Humans make
mistakes, that’s normal. But if a leader makes a mistake, the impact
is large.

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