Evolution was Re: Heraldry for the masses...

Deborah Sweet dssweet at okway.okstate.edu
Thu Aug 17 09:56:04 PDT 1995


>Antonio Bastiano writes:

>Now the queston that arises from this sort of thinking is what is truly 
>appropriate for one to be a well rounded individual in the SCA?  The 
>big three were always Fighting, Costuming and Heraldry.  Are we perhaps 
>evolving into a society that better reflects a real society, where 
>people have diverse skills, and it takes the sum of the parts to really 
>make it work?

>That last paragraph is more thinking with my fingers, and is probably 
>much better conversation over a pint.  In fact, I'd rather not turn 
>this into another dead horse.  Everyone who is interested in exploring 
>this sort of philosophy email me privately and we'll arrange to get 
>together, somehow, someway.

But, Antonio, it's not fair to bring up the most interesting sounding 
point of the whole week (IMHO), and then declare it a verbotten subject. 
Go ahead, let the colt grow up, be mature, and then die a noble death, 
*on* the list. That's what it's here for. :-)

estrill





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