Re: MR: Brute Squad

[Robert J Welenc <rjwelenc@erols.com>]

Poster: Robert J Welenc <rjwelenc@erols.com>

Alfredo el Bufon scripsit:
>
>Notice how the Authenticity Police, in the popular imagination,
>is a sort of Anti-Laurel -- discouraging interest in the Arts
>and Sciences by sniping where the Laurels encourage by example.
>(Their opposing goals would account for the low overlap.)
>This new concept of Brutes (I'm sorry, but I can't bring myself
>to call them Brutelies) seems to point to a parallel Anti-Chivalry.
>For completeness, I propose the concept of an Anti-Pelican, but
>I don't know how such personalities would manifest themselves.

Well, let's see -- Pelicans are peers by service, so Anti-Pelicans would be
Anti-Peers by anti-service, i.e. by running down the service efforts of
others.  As an example:

A-P: "Those !@#$%^ heralds don't know what they're doing!  I've been trying
for *five years* to get a name and device passed, and they keep bouncing it
deliberately, just because they don't like the name 'Demonslayer' or my cool
arms with a red demon on a black field!  They're all just out to get more
money..."

I'm sure that others could fill in their exemplars as well.

Alanna Volchevo Lesa
Partan Pursuivant

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