[Ansteorra] What has happened?

[Michael Smith]

Plato and Aristotle said the same of the youths of their day.

50 years ago, you might find someone who would ask around as to who dropped
a dollar.  It was worth more.  And before you jump me for suggesting that
morality is relative, ask yourself:  If you found a quarter on the ground
today, woulnd you do anything but pick it up and think "half way to a soda
out of the cheap machines at work" or some such?

But frankly, I don't buy your degeneration examples.

Maybe it also depends on where you are.  I bet money I could drop a dollar
on the ground at our fighter practice and the children there would find it
and ask every adult if they'd dropped it.  A TWENTY?  If it was gone, it
wasn't someone in the SCA from my local group who got it.

As to the lack of site-respect: The world goes by pretty fast, and people
tend to forget stuff.  Human beings, being what they are, need the
occasional kick in the pants to let them know they're straying.  If every
one  of us just makes the decision to go out and do better personally and
teach those lessons by word and deed, we'll get back to where we belong.

Respectfully submitted,
Morgan

----- Original Message -----
From: <Baronman at aol.com>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] What has happened?


> 20 years ago, when I first started playing SCA it was said you could leave
a
> $20 bill on a table at fighter practice and it would still be there when
you
> got ready to go home. 10 years ago it was said you could leave a $20 bill
on
> a  table at fighter practice and it would still be there when you got
ready to
> go  home but it might be a different bill.  5 years ago it was said you
could
>  leave a $20 bill on a table at fighter practice and the change would
still
> be there when you got ready to go home.  Today I don't  think there would
be
> anything left.  Declining moral  values????? Sure see it in my 8th
graders.
> B Bors