Pause trying to fix each new mess in isolation, to start building the community process that composts our mess into something useful

This #blocking conversation in the #oxfordboaters chat is a conflict between trying to manage the immediate problem and building the collective process needed to stop the same problems recurring. Through the needed #KISS lens, it is a cludge between reactive (stupid)individualism and the harder work of building community structures. The immediate conflict is a symptom, not the underlying problem The conversation is filled with suspicion and frustration about people, conduct, and the proposed response to Hartley Trust (HT). There is a concern, a #blocking that the group is accommodating behaviour that should be challenging. What we need to compost is these conflicts become more damaging because the group lacks the processes and structures needed to deal with any collective working path. Politeness and niceness become tools of control The articles smiling-faced vileness and WhatsApp plebiscites reveal the wider mess we need to compost. That enforced niceness discourage the needed…