ANST - awards & peasants & peers, oh my

[Fox Anton Purtill]

I might suggest that you consider the folling advice as was told to me
by my knight many many years ago when I was young and so was the SCA..

"You will hear many things said and see many things done in both
kindness and pettyness by many here.  People will talk behind and in
from of backs and berate and belittle at the same time as they praise
those same people.  You can't let them create your values, you must
set those and live by the codes that make you the person you wish to
be.  Certainly you can listen and hear their own judgements, but never
let this sway your own impressions.  You make your own decisions on
others based on what YOU alone know of them, on what YOU alone see in
those you meet.  There are too many petty ills between other people
for you to worry about what they might or might not like.  Just be
yourself and do what you enjoy and others will come to know who you
are and know you for your understanding."

With this in mind I do not take much seriously, but those things I have
come to see in my own eyes as worth being serious to me.  This will have
the effect of removing most of the politics from your woes and allow
you to ignore that which ails you.

      Karin Höijer-Purtill : Artist
Fox Anton Purtill : Programmer/Web Design
  blackfox at flash.net / khoijer at flash.net
         www.flash.net/~blackfox

> -----Original Message-----
> What I have seen in my life is a growing distaste for the SCA.  When I
> began, it all seemed so innocent and polite on the surface.  As I've
> gotten to know more of the people who "run the show" and who tend to
> have more of these awards, titles, etc. I see how much less than ideal
> things really are.  The politics turn me off.  I see favoritisms, I see
> ass-kissing, I see secret hatreds, talking about people behind their
> backs, I see attempts to prevent other people from doing things, I see
> the little cliques form.  I've heard bad things from those close to
> me about people I respect, which (sorry to say) always leaves questions
> about that person in my mind.  I'd rather not have heard the negative.
> I see more of the "inside" trash.  And sorry, but leaving the company
> of these people is not so easy for reasons I won't address publicly.

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