ANST - what makes peerage mportant?

[Russell Husted]

>So, just what makes peerage important, anyway? - Galen<

To me, a person who has only been in the SCA for 2 years, the peerage is 
important because it gives me easy knoweldge of who to look to for help and 
guidence.

I look up to peers, as well as many others, but specifically peers because 
they are recognized by more than just myself as being a person with great 
knowledge or skill.

My children know, that if some form of emergency were to happen at an event 
and I am unavailible, ie: marshaling a melee in the woods, go to a white 
belt. They know this because, although I may be wrong, I believe all belts 
to have a high level of integrity and I can trust them to take care of the 
problem.

It does upset me to some exstent that some of the people I look up to are 
not considered equals with the others I look up to. And if you say that 
being a white scarf is equal recognition as being a knight, there is 
somebody out there who will remind any white scarf that they are not a peer.

Why are peers important, we all need people to look up to and it helps to 
know who they are.

humbly
mahee

ps. this is not ment as any form of flame, please do not take it as such.

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