Cohousing-L Mailing List: Senority--Pros and Cons

[Sharon Villines (sharonvillines]

> 3)  "This is an important, early experience that can have
> much significance in defining who we are.  Let's put forward
> the extra trust needed for a process that de-emphasizes
> competition and priviledge."

Seniority is often viewed as based on competition and privilege when it is
really a result of hard work and sticking to it.

Working things out based on expressed needs is often viewed as more caring
but is a process that can easily give the win to the least hard-working
(thus the more needy), the most verbal, and those with the most time and
energy available to argue.

I liked the suggestion to give everyone a chance to express their desires
and reasons for making this choice or that, then make choices based on
seniority, then work out trades if necessary and possible.


Sharon
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Sharon Villines
In Washington, DC where all roads lead to Casablanca
Takoma Village Cohousing, where things are in the final stages and looking
very spiffy. And I'm wondering if we should just put it in a museum and get
on with our lives.
http://www.takomavillage.org