[Ansteorra] RE:The whole pirate thing...

[Marc Carlson]

From: ansteorra-bounces+jyeates=realtime.net at ansteorra.org
>* .. My only confusion - and that's all it is, a confusion - is why anyone
>would want a person based on people who kill and steal for a living (you 
>can
>dress it up however you want, but the historical reality is that piracy IS
>all about theft, even today).   ...
>maybe i can help lift the confusion .. here's a great book on pirates *in* 
>period:
>_Pirate Utopias_, by Peter Lamborn Wilson

Nope.  Doesn't help, unless you are trying to tell me that "well it could 
have been this way and that's what makes it appealing" - in which case, 
that's great - but don't delude yourself that it's fact.

>if that authors name seems vaguely familiar for some reason ... he also 
>publishes under his
>pseudonym "Hakim Bey"

Your not helping his cred with this.

Marc/Diarmaid

'wolf
... There comes a time in every man's life when he must feel tempted to spit
in his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. -H.L. Mencken