Cohousing-L Mailing List: Formal Consensus

[Maggie Dutton (mdutton]

Consensus doesn't scale well and is only about making decisions.  What
Butler seems to say is that it turns into majority rule.
I can't help but wonder what Butler thinks of Sociocracy?  Racheli, could
you ask since you seem to be in communication with him.
Maggie Dutton,
www.sociocracyinaction.ca 

Racheli wrote:
This isn't actually accurate.  It's true that Butler sees the power to 
block as
belonging to the group (while what an individual does is withholding 
her/his
consent).  But the way it get carried out isn't by the whole group 
agreeing
that the block is valid: Rather, the group decides (preferably ahead of 
time!)
how many people it takes to find the withholding of consent as valid, 
and if
sufficient number does so, then it's a block.
The number can be a fixed one, or a certain percentage of the people 
present at the
meeting.
Butler also says that as the number grows, the process becomes more 
like voting,
and less like consensus.
(BTW - I asked him directly about Tree's interpretation, and he says 
that it wasn't
right).

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