RE: Too many egos in charge

["Neal Townley (EUS)" <QUSNJT@am1.ericsson.se>]

Poster: "Neal Townley (EUS)" <QUSNJT@am1.ericsson.se>

Ya know.. there are other medieval organizations to play with.... some
are better then others... 
vote with your feet... 

Niall Dolphin

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jsrechts@imap.unc.edu [SMTP:jsrechts@imap.unc.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 18, 1998 5:51 PM
> To:	atlantia@atlantia.sca.org
> Subject:	Too many egos in charge
> 
> 
> Poster: jsrechts@imap.unc.edu
> 
> Time for me to vent some...
> 
> I was amazed and disgusted by the behavior "those in charge" before
> the
> Final Field Battle.  It seems that once again, a few hotheads in high
> places placed
> their egos and ideas of "honor" before thinking of the popular good.
> People are on vacation here but it seems that some forget that all too
> fast and then after attempting to spoil the game for the rest of us,
> make a hasty apology.  Perhaps we need to reinforce the notion of why
> were are here to begin with (to have fun) and the anger and hubris are
> bad qualities. 
> 
> I was chatting with friends from the Midrealm when I saw the Eastern
> Army walk off the field.  The reaction was shock at the notion that a
> whole army would walk off because of perceived or real insults.  We
> were
> determined not to
> let the powers that be get in the way of our vacation and good time
> and
> proceeded to fight the additional field battle.  Real honor involves
> thinking of others and considering the long term effect before leaping
> to ridiculous actions.  I add this though, at least Timothy did
> not exhort the Eastern Army and Allies to go crush the Midrealm in any
> way possible.  Still, I think there were better ways of handling this
> on
> both the Midrealm and Eastern sides.
> 
> Now onto another gripe:  Lack of imagination on the part of those in
> command.  Can we have a rallying cry that is actually based on
> something
> medieval or renaissance rather than a lame quote
> from "Starship Troopers"?  (I'm referring to the Everybody Fights,
> Nobody Quits here).  One can find many examples of usable quotes from
> medieval literature.  Perhaps we can have a rule that Royalty and
> those
> in Command read Battle of Maldon, Song of Roland, Henry V etc.  The
> paramilitary chants really should just be left to the movies and to
> the
> Real Armed Forces.
> We would get far more of a medieval flavor to our battles by shouting
> the period quotes and in turn, make things more fun.  We join the SCA
> in
> part to escape the 20th century, we don't need to import hackneyed
> modern phrases to tarnish our little fantasy of being medieval people.
> 
> Funny, we forget we are 20th century people when it's most needed and
> then at the best possible time to be medieval - we go 20th century.
> Go
> figure!
> Time to change some habits.
> 
> Lyanna
> 
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