Clay Shirky - Group Quotes

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Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

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We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

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Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...

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Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

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For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.

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