[Ansteorra] Fwd: [Steppes] Forwarded from the Ansteorran list - Sad Tidings

[swieland3 at austin.rr.com]

I regret that I did not know this man.  My sympathy to the family and to friends for their loss.

Deepest regards,
Damaris of Greenhill


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> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:47:42 -0600
> From: jasiwolf at gmail.com
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Ansteorra] Fwd: [Steppes] Forwarded from the Ansteorran list - Sad	Tidings
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> From: Tiffany <tlcmom2 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Steppes] Forwarded from the Ansteorran list - Sad Tidings
> To: Julie Cunningham <juliecunningham65 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Barony of Steppes - SCA Inc." <steppes at lists.ansteorra.org>
> 
> 
> I had the extreme pleasure of meeting this fine gentleman  and I found a
> couple of pictures that I had taken at Coronation this year and I wanted to
> share them with everyone.
> 
> Could someone please cross post these for me?
> 
> In memory of Don Christoforo Antonio Passavanti
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/24001957@N04/3028950640/in/set-72157609048852018/
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/24001957@N04/3028950508/in/set-72157609048852018/
> 
> Grace
> 

"If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should
people give up these rights when they enter their workplace? In
politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our
leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of what
work to pursue -- control of our lives, in short. And then we wake up
in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear.  We no
longer insist on them.  And so for most of the day we return to
feudalism.  That is what capitalism is -- a version of feudalism in
which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings.  But
the hierarchy remains.  And so we still hand over our lives' labor,
under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work."

Kim Stanley Robinson. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam. 1996. p. 116.
"If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should
people give up these rights when they enter their workplace? In
politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our
leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of what
work to pursue -- control of our lives, in short. And then we wake up
in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear.  We no
longer insist on them.  And so for most of the day we return to
feudalism.  That is what capitalism is -- a version of feudalism in
which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings.  But
the hierarchy remains.  And so we still hand over our lives' labor,
under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work."

Kim Stanley Robinson. Blue Mars. New York: Bantam. 1996. p. 116.