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where a brilliant idea goes to be slowly negotiated into beige paste.
means A group of people appointed or elected to discuss, decide, or manage a particular matter on behalf of a larger body.
from From the verb 'commit' — to entrust or hand over — built on Latin 'committere,' 'to bring together, to entrust' (com-, 'together' + mittere, 'to send'). In English the '-ee' ending originally marked the one to whom something was committed: a 'committee' was at first a single person entrusted with a task. Only later did it swell into the group of the entrusted — which feels grimly fitting, given how one clear charge tends to multiply into many opinions.
- old roots
- From committere, meaning to entrust or hand over
- camel quip
- A horse designed by committee becomes a camel
- meeting math
- More members, fewer decisions ever actually made
- diffusion effect
- Shared responsibility means nobody truly feels responsible
for instance
warren commission — investigated jfk assassination in 1963-64