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When community democracy becomes performative

Everyone in our ecovillage talks about consensus decision-making but really it's just the same three loud people who always get their way and the rest of us have learned to stay quiet.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Power dynamics persist even in communities explicitly designed to be egalitarian.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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