consensus, n.Definitions

Consensus is the result of leadership, not a substitute for leadership.

Consensus is the enemy of genius. It makes thinking stop.

Consensus is thoughtlessness. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Consensus is an area that shifts unbelievably fast. The bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

Consensus is man's greatest labor. It represents a labor to reach agreement about very many things and to submit to a law of agreement, regardless of whether these things are true or false.

Consensus is independent of truth. Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with something, it does not become more true: Nor less true if the whole world disagrees with it.

Consensus is the troubling presupposition that every part of a population and all of its problems can be incorporated into single a political order and taken into account.