Litch & the Hospitaller's office

PTM2792 at UTARLG.UTA.EDU PTM2792 at UTARLG.UTA.EDU
Thu Mar 23 10:39:35 PST 1995


Let's see ...

Pug quoted me, then aswered:

>> Litch, isn't this a bit of a contradiction?  If the Kingdom Hospitaller 
>> has out of date information, then who's updating the info to the Net?
>
> I think the problem here is the information I try to go on as
> "authoritative" is the BlackStar. I know as far as our little College
> went, the information in the BlackStar didn't represent who was really
> doing the jobs. (Yep, includes sending in their reports and all.)

This problem is not always the fault of the Kingdom Hospitaller.  If the
Kingdom Chronicler fails to update the _Blackstar_, or if the group fails to
properly select a new officer, and/or then report the contact info for the 
new officer, the Kingdom Chronicler can't get out the info to the rest of
us.

Then, Litch quoted me, quoting him, and responed:

>> "This is the net, updating information is fairly quick easy and painless
>> (and obtaining ain't much harder).
>> 
>> "The kingdom hospitaller, if you can ever get ahold of them, tend to be
>> in large part pretty useless for most people. They rarely know anything 
>> useful other than the name of the person who was supposed to be 
>> hospitaller 3-4 months ago. It is almost always a Long Distance Call to 
>> get ahold of them and in general a hassle."
>> 
>> And to which I say:
>> Litch, isn't this a bit of a contradiction?  If the Kingdom Hospitaller 
>> has out of date information, then who's updating the info to the Net?
>
> The people on the net of course.

Correct me if I'm mistaken here, but are there not about 20 million people
on the Internet?  Which people will do this updating?

Then I said to Litch:

>> I sometimes think I should look forward to the day when you hold office
>> in the SCA, because I know we'd see a superior standard of service then.

> Well when i have the time and money to do the job properly I will 
> certainly look forward to having your vocal support.

I am curious to know what standards would be met to have you identify
the job as being done "properly".

One of the things they teach economists is the concept of "revealed
preference"; basically, when people want something badly enough, they
rearrange their priorities so that they have the time and money.

And in flaming Litch, Lorraine Deerslayer remarks:

> And why you choose to be involved in a Society that prides itself on 
> honour and gallantry just to be against the flow, no one I know knows.
> Maybe you will enlighten us politely.

I confess that I, too, have wondered about this.  People who seem happy
in the SCA sometimes discuss what attracts them to it.  Why do people
who seem so unhappy with the SCA stay in it?

- Viscount Galen of Bristol
  "noblesse oblige"




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