ES - Re: AOA thread/politics new

[Glen Wilkerson]

Homo Sapiens is the most cruel, the most deadly of all the animals in this
solar system - yet he invented politics!  He figured out a way to let most
of us, most of the time, get along well enough so that we usually don't kill
each other - so don't let me hear you using "politics" as a swear word
again...

"Podklayne of Mars"  Robert A. Heinlein

-----Original Message-----
From: willow taylor <willowjonbardc at juno.com>
To: elfsea at ansteorra.org <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
Date: Friday, March 02, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: ES - Re: AOA thread/politics new


>
>Dear Lady Ealasaid Mac alBhaird  called Aeryn Greetings from  Duchess
>Willow de Wisp
>
>You made the following statement and it is something I am very proud of.
>
>> The people of Ansteorra deserve great credit that politics is played
>> only a
>> little here and most people are willing to speak out when they see a
>> good
>> thing happening.
>>
>I was one of the founding members of  the idea that makes up Anstoerra.
>But I would like to point out something  false in your statement.
>Ansteorra do play politics. Ansteorrans are very knowledgeable about
>politics. Ansteorrans  realize that politics are important to the day to
>day running of our kingdom. Ansteorrans  also realize that prestige and
>power politics are inherent in the running of a social organization. We
>view  politics as  tools.   We also realize that some tools work well
>while other are messy. The folks that worked on the  kingdom, and there
>were many of us , decide to promote fair politic. We believe that if you
>had a problem  you directed  your force on the problem  not on the
>individual. Attacking the individual was classified as improper politic.
>Anything that involve making a person feel bad was thought to be
>improper. Even in Power and Prestige politics it was thought to be wrong
>to attack your opponent.  For example, you don't get to be the best
>costumer by destroying all the other costumers but by making the best
>costumes. Harassment and blackmail and intimidation were some of the
>political techniques that were classified as improper. When we use fair
>play politics we might get mad at each  other for a while but we didn't
>hurt each other as people so we can work together at a later date. One of
>the mistakes people make is to classify all politic as bad and refuse to
>study them. What happens is when someone needs to get something done or
>wants something they have no "good" techniques to use so they fall back
>on the simplest and usually most messy politics. By given people
>political techniques that cause less problems  we cut down on the hurt
>and frustration and everyone can be happier and more creative.
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