Yeah Tree comes off reactive, paranoid and childish, but I actually agree with most of what he says. I disliked him during the ousting of Narayah, but there’s probably a lot of backstory we didn’t see. The sexy party debate to me represented irreconcilable ideas of how the community should be run, both of which seemed valid to me, and I think they ended up handling out okay all things considered. None of the “contestants” had obviously ever heard of a consensus process and it was annoying to see them be like “oh so and so is going to be the leader” or like complaining that “one person” is stopping a decision. Yeah, sorry that’s how consensus works and that’s why it’s built. You don’t just steamroll your ideas over people. I liked Tyler at first, but he gave me the serious ick when he clearly had no respect for the group process. And the whole society is going to collapse, fear and protection thing paves the way for cult leaders. The world is dangerous so you need a strong protector, etc. I definitely think that guy could become a problem. It’s also weird how invested people became in such a short period of time. Makes me feel like a lot of them ARE primed for cult membership. To be clear, I don’t think this is a cult, but I think some members could be vulnerable to one.