The Questions · the collective · the three seats
What is a collective made of?
A collective is not a large person. It does not feel, it does not want, and it does not decide — and once you can name the seats it actually runs on, three kinds of government stop being three kinds of anything.
Three seats — a body, a mind, and a soul — and a collective is not a large person.
Three seats and one outside force.
Democracy, dictatorship and mob name which seat is running it.
What this settles
So the structure is the same everywhere, and only two things vary: which chair holds command, and how much of what pushes at it ever reaches the wheel. Each seat is named by the job it does rather than by who is in it.
What it leaves open
How far does a collective’s duty reach?
Raised in this footing and not answered anywhere in the work.
Not this question
Whose team is it?
Also in this footing, and a different question. This one gives the anatomy. That one runs a hard case through it.
Also asked as
- Who is a collective?
Nothing on this page is composed. Every sentence in the answer is drawn from the pieces listed above. Where a claim is compressed, it is compressed from one of them and adds nothing they do not say.
The anatomy of a collective
What a group is made of, how it decides, what it is bound to and what condition it lives in — held together by the one rule that a collective is never a self. 5 of the 12 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.
- Is a nation a person?walked
- So how does a collective reach a self?walked
- When is a collective?walked
- Whose team is it?walked
- How does a collective operate?answered, not written up
- What condition does a collective live within?answered, not written up
- What does the collective build?answered, not written up
- What is a collective bound to?answered, not written up
- What runs through all five, at scale?answered, not written up
- How far does a collective’s duty reach?not explored yet
- What do we owe each other?not explored yet