To grow beyond people feeling lost - and political debate being pointless - it helps to use a simple #KISS lens: fear and trust.
The right mobilizes through fear: fear of loss, outsiders, disorder and change. The left has traditionally been stronger when it builds from trust: solidarity, openness, cooperation and collective action.
These are not absolute categories, but they can help us see the dynamics underneath the politics. Fear creates cycles of control; trust creates the possibility of openness and collaboration.
This matters for the current #openweb reboot. What happens when #mainstreaming crew push projects away from trust and towards fear, control, exclusion and defensive politics?
Could we use this simple lens to recognize which direction our projects are actually moving in - regardless of the what people they do?
That is a useful way to step outside the immediate mess and ask the more important question: are we building systems based on fear, or systems based on trust?
https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/4opens/wiki/Funding-of-openweb-projects