July 15 random thoughts

Kitty Sitter (Mexican Superheroes) i came across this neat pic on 'mother jones' photo essay on mexican superheroes. neat! spiderman was washing windows, and the hulk was doing construction work. what great photo ops to catch people doing interesting and weird things.

spent the weekend at makaha resort doing an oahu council institute training. learned something, especially about roberts rules of order. the meetings i run are based on consensus decision making, but most of the ones i attend use rro. i never know what to say or how to say it appropriately, so i don't. and 90% of the people at these meetings don't say anything, either. rro will silence everyone who doesn't understand the rules, so it's either assimilation or silence. pretty clever for those who want to move people away from native cultural behaviors of respectful process, toward dog-eat-dog nastiness of "order" that can cut people to shreds because the rules rule and feelings/emotions are downgraded to less than zero. i think it has the effect of putting the rules front and center and leaving the issue, whatever it is, somewhere in the back. of course, some people think that's good.