Bozos and OS facilitators

Jeff Aitken ja at svn.net
Wed Jan 16 10:04:23 PST 2002


What do open space facilitators and Bozos have in common?

(excerpts from the lexicon of the Firesign Theatre, a comedy group whose
album I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus was an underground classic in the
early 70's. Thanks to Eric Lilius)

"Bozos are people who band together for fun and profit. They have no jobs.
Anybody who goes on a tour is a Bozo. Everybody tends to drift towards
Bozoness. It has Oz in it. They mean well. They're straight-looking except
they've got inflatable shoes. The Bozos have learned to enjoy their free
time, which is all the time."

-- My favorite is the "inflatable shoes" sentence, which reminds me of
something that Joelle wrote awhile ago. I imagine us all with inflatable
shoes hidden beneath our suits as we gleefully invite staid citizens into
self-organizing chaos - and soon we all find that their shoes are
inflatable too.

Jeff

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Jeff Aitken
(01) 707-769-8155
JA at svn.net

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