As a creative person with a big mouth, I often myself being a Pied Piper.  Its easy enough.  Start with a new (as in New & Improved) captivating viral idea and add liberal amount of charisma (I have been accused of being charismatic when I am mad enough to light up the fire in my eyes).  So one morning you wake up and realize that you got a horde of lemmings on your tail.  Now what?  You can't quit because you are the leader.  You can't stop because a movement requires you to move, preferrably forward.

I think this is what is happening with Joi Ito's Emergent Democracy.  More you talk to people and share your thoughts, more entangled you get.  If you are an intellect trained to see all sides of an issue, its a torture like an unbeliever forced to be the head priest.  Like Tim Oren, I found Joi's thoughts naive.  Allow me to skip the details for now to avoid being an Anti-Pied Piper, a position just as worse as Pied Piper.