Presbyterians and their bureaucracies.

I attended a congregational meeting on Friday and a committee meeting on Sunday. Basically, my impression was that the majority are always bored to tears, one to two people are Luddite sticklers or excitable malcontents, and that the procedural friction of Robert's Rules of Order reduces all good ideas to referrals and nice-sounding compromises. What does Massala say to Judah at their reunion? "Down Eros! Up Mars!" Well, anyways, you get the idea...