Enmeshment

While community and collective care taking are immensely important, it is vital to allow people to develop into autonomous individuals too. A consequence of enmeshed relationships is that responsibilities for care taking and decision making fall on a small number of people which can result in an authoritarian culture. Eventually, people tasked with “ruling” become exhausted and make poor decisions for the group anyway, their choices becoming more reactive, less considered for collective benefit, and increasingly self serving.