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?
SEE BELOW
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
>... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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