# What's wrong with committees? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 11, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-committees/549980 "2010-08-11T21:15:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-committees/549980/21 "2010-08-17T06:52:56Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > [@Floater](#): > > > > My experience after having been involved in arranging a couple of biggish dos is that you don’t need a committee. What you want is a dictator. > > Because history provides us with no examples of any bad results ever coming from having a dictator run things. The [Volkshalle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkshalle) _was_ pretty nifty, if we’re talking about architecture, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-committees/549980/22 "2010-08-17T14:06:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > [@Floater](#): > > > > My experience after having been involved in arranging a couple of biggish dos is that you don’t need a committee. What you want is a dictator. > > Because history provides us with no examples of any bad results ever coming from having a dictator run things. I’m not aware of any historically bad parties that resulted from having a dictator organize them. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-committees/549980/23 "2010-08-17T16:23:40Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > > Because history provides us with no examples of any bad results ever coming from having a dictator run things. > > I’m not aware of any historically bad parties that resulted from having a dictator organize them. :dubious: How about the National Socialist German Workers’ Party? Now that was a really bad party. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-committees/549980/24 "2010-08-17T16:57:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > [@Misnomer](#): > > > > I’m not aware of any historically bad parties that resulted from having a dictator organize them. :dubious: > > How about the National Socialist German Workers’ Party? Now that was a really bad party. Hitler may have named it, but he didn’t start it – and Drexler wasn’t a dictator. Besides, I hear the DJ was _awesome_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-committees/549980/25 "2010-08-17T17:33:00Z")
The twelve minute disco remix of the Horst Wessel Song had a good beat and you could march to it. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-committees/549980/26 "2010-08-17T19:04:22Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > > How about the National Socialist German Workers’ Party? Now that was a really bad party. > > Hitler may have named it, but he didn’t start it – and Drexler wasn’t a dictator. Besides, I hear the DJ was _awesome_. They were a gas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-committees/549980.md?page=1)