ANST - Regional identity...

Sandy M Koenig ravensmk at juno.com
Mon Jun 1 03:50:23 PDT 1998


What is all this crap that keeps coming in you messages?

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RAVEN
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore"

On Sun, 31 May 1998 18:11:37 -0500 "j'lynn yeates" <jyeates at bga.com>
writes:
><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>.. on events<italic>
>
>
></italic></color>> >  Pug asked (and a very good question, I might 
>add):
>
><italic><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>> >  How does one do 
>regional events so that the burden (financial and work)
>
>> >  is balanced between the groups so that all involved leave happy?
>
>
></italic></color>On 31 May 98, at 15:42, Dennis and Dory Grace wrote:
>
>> 
>
><italic><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>> To keep things simple, 
>1000 Eyes hosted the event and fronted the money.
>
>>  .... Since Uprising had become perceived as a Principality event, a 
>small 
>
></italic></color>> percentage (we usually 
><italic><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>did 10% to 15%) was 
>donated directly to the Principality. 
>
>
></italic>this brings up a tangential but related thread ... "event 
>identity" and "local autonomy".  
>
>
>say there is a local event that has been run totally locally.  and due 
>to good 
>management and local support it becomes increasingly popular and 
>profitable, but the 
>local's want to keep it as a local event.  
>
>
>how do you prevent principality / kingdom to "claim" that event (and a 
>higher 
>percentage of the profits involved ????).  is this a price of 
>belonging to a principality / 
>kingdom?  could this be considered a under-table "taxation" (for lack 
>of better word).  
>are events required to "tithe" to kingdom / principality / both ???
>
>
>over the years have heard several threads (in various kingdoms) where 
>folk were 
>bemoaning that their event's had been hijaacked from them (might have 
>a few in the old 
>bbs archives)
>
>
>.. on social development
>
>
>i bring these up as a mirror of a change of perception that i have 
>seen in many i speak 
>with from over the almost 25 years self has been associated with the 
>SCA.  initially, 
>the focus was locally to the people you associated with.  this was a 
>very intimate, very 
>personal level.  as groups eveloved that focus shifted to the higher 
>organizational level 
>of barony .... focus began to shift away from personal allegences to 
>heirarchical 
>allegiences.  as growth continued and groups "matured" this shifted to 
>a higher 
>kingdom-centric level.  
>
>
>initially in this kingdom / principality there was much more a focus 
>on the person.  
>probably due in part to the fact that it was a very celtic-oriented 
>base.  whre trappings 
>and organization seemed much less important than the personal 
>alliances each 
>created .. now it seems that the upper organizational echelons are 
>more important 
>than the person and demand that the person subordinate themselves to 
>it ... but then, 
>that's the pattern of buracracy, no?
>
>
>as this growth pattern evolved, self has noted a increasing level of 
>alienation, burn-out, 
>dissatisfaction - especially iin the older folk (many have admitted to 
>me these are 
>some of teh reasons they are no longer here).  those that came in at 
>later dates, 
>entered at these more mature social levels (for the most part) and 
>never knew what 
>came before ... and even in those have seen pattern repeated as things 
>evolved / grew 
>became increasingly complex.
>
>
>thoughts ???  
>
>
>'wolf</color>
>
><nofill>
>... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
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