ANSTHRLD - Grant question

Dr Tiomoid M. of Angle tiomoid at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 14 18:30:20 PDT 1999


- --- Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net> wrote:

> C'mon, Tadgh, don't hold back. Let us know what you *really* think. 
> : )

Be careful what you wish for ... you just might get it.

> He said it's always bothered some people that the award wasn't easily
> pigeonholed, but it was kind of meant to be like that. They wanted to
> make it different from everything else, prestigious because of its
> rarity and what it took to earn one, rather than prestigious because
> of the rank it gave.

Yeah, yeah, and it ranks right up there with Santa Claus and the Tooth
Fairy as a cute story to tell the easily-impressed, but it's all
whipped cream. Any award is intended to divide a population into those
who have it and those who don't, with the implication that the haves
are better in some sense than the have-nots; the myth that it merely
"recognizes" status already achieved is a fairly transparent fiction.

I've seen a lot of Lions given out; and some I thought well-deserved,
and some I thought Stupid Political Tricks -- much as with the peerage
orders. Granted that not everyone is as cynical and jaded as I am,
nevertheless I can't imagine that I'm the only one not standing around
with starry eyes saying "Gosh! Wow!" How this sort of thing serves a
useful function I can't imagine ... nor do I intend to waste any of my
valuable grumping time on it, relatively innocuous affectation that it
is.


Tadhg
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