Our arts and culture correspondent, Izzie Phoreal, has drawn a seating chart of town meeting. It’s accuracy should be taken with a grain of salt. Click on the image for a larger view.
Izzie’s Town Meeting Seating Chart
Izzie Phoreal’s Seating Chart of Town Meeting
Being a charter member of the cranky old people section, I believe that Izzie has got the overall breakdown of the Town Meeting perfectly right.
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” Elbert Hubbard
Proud member of the mostly moderate mosh pit!
How about something different – what if we mix up the seating and had the moderates sitting and talking with the liberals, the old with the new, and no one being sent down the rabbit hole. After all, there is just one Milton and TMM seats are not assigned. Please try mixing it up and, if you do, let me know how it goes.
For 25 years proud member of the liberal mosh pit! ( though currently on the Warrant Committee)
My thanks to the artist for rendering me to appear to have more hair than my current age seems to allow! May I use this in my new Town Meeting Member orientation?
Another proud member of the moderate mosh pit. This is hilarious, and very accurate!
I’m trying to decide which is a poorer reflection on town meeting, the fact that residents with common interests might be drawn to sit together and chat socially, or the fact that others (not just the cartoonist) might seek to pigeon-hole them politically? While it’s healthy to laugh at ourselves, in my view, reinforcing notions of town meeting polarization may serve to discourage fair-minded people of all stripes from participating in what should be an apolitical town meeting process.
Where are the rookies supposed to sit? =)
car·toon
kärtoon/
noun
1. a simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, especially a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine.
synonyms: caricature, parody, lampoon, satire
Drawing is so well done.
Proud member of the liberal section.