[Ravensfort] Let me see if I can keep from making an ass of myself

[AMH/DBLJ]

Flower Power !!!!!!!!!!!
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Like, great letter man.  I mean, I've always wanted to do the North Seas Raids
Autocrat trip.  A very groovy concept for an event.  The whole Norce/Celtic,
spacial, different culture, conflict, passion play is copacetic, but actually
striking each other seems like such a bummer.  Why can' t everyone just get
along ??  John and Yoko are so right on.  ...Woe, spaced out there for a
second. Where was I ??  Oh yea.  It needs to be an early year date so that the
cold thing is really happening.  Can you dig where I'm coming from ??  And the
song is really far out too.

"...So now you better stop
and rebuild all your ruin
for peace and trust can win the day
despite of all your losing.
aah  aah  ah
aah  aah  ah ...

(indistinguishable studio talk)
Bright light, almost blind
Black knight, still it shies
Can't sto,SKIP!!!"...

Oh, wow, sorry man.  I forgot to take the record off.

Pax n Luv,
Marius



Charley Atchley wrote:

> It has been brought to my attention that I may have offended people with my
> "petty politics comment" at populace. It was never my intent to do this. As
> I also stated, I like peace. When Lorain asked me what I meant by petty
> politics, I was not able to articulate what I meant, because I did not want
> to piss off someone. I am going to try to clarify what I meant with a
> carefully worded letter. I hope that no one is offended.
>
> Athaulf's definition of petty politics: A state that occurs when a person
> with power, (office, autocrat, in charge of something, final say on a
> subject, etc.) uses that power to be totally uncompromising even when they
> are about to screw up or their idea is inferior to another one. A condition
> that can be summed up as "My way or the highway." It becomes petty when the
> stands that are being taken are about unimportant things.
>
> I have seen good ideas shot down by officers because they wanted something
> done their way, or they did not like the person who made the suggestion.
> Most of the time this is not things that are dictated by kingdom law. Most
> of the time it is little things. Like where the tables need to be put for
> arts and science. I had to move the tables around the list field after an
> event started one time because we set up in the wrong tent. (We set up in
> the one this nameless guy had chosen, and this nameless guy was on someone's
> crap list.) That is an example of petty. I have seen ideas come up and seen
> officers dismiss them with no discussion, because the idea did not fit their
> preconceived idea of what they wanted to see happen, or they would choke
> before they did something that a particular person wanted.
>
> When I brought up the "North-sea Raids" example I was not thinking about how
> we pulled it off with out having to hassle with all of the rules and
> regulations. I was thinking about how a few of us came up with an idea, then
> the idea started growing because other people got excited, and they put in
> their input. We incorporated things that we had not thought of at first. We
> gave up things that we had thought of, because they were not as good as some
> of the ideas that other people had. I was thinking of the synergy that comes
> when people stop thinking that they personally must win and start trying to
> do things so that the whole group wins. We had our share of people that
> wanted things done a certain way, but we compromised. (It took three
> meetings with the kingdom earl marshal before everyone could agree on the
> rules for the boat battle.) In the end everyone had fun even if there were
> archers in some of the boats even if we had to drop the boats to fight from
> them. The important thing was that no one took sole possession of the idea
> it was the whole group's idea to shape and bend. The format for arts and
> sciences changed several times before we did the event. We ended up with
> "Best Thor's hammer in any media." Not my personal choice. I wanted to do
> mead, but everyone claimed that the brewers needed a year to get ready for a
> contest, and they wanted one that everyone could enter. It was one of the
> coolest arts and science shows that I had seen.
>
> It was never my intent to offend everyone. I know I have still not given any
> specific examples of what I am referring to with my comment. I do not think
> that naming names in public will help. I would not have brought up this
> comment, but we were discussing the goals and direction that we wanted to
> see happen. I hope that by more clearly describing what I am talking about
> that I can avoid pointing fingers at some officer who has done a lot of
> great things with their office, but has done this a few times. (We have good
> officers who care a lot about their office, and the SCA.) I guess everyone
> is still reeling from our "Summer of love" that happened this year. Those
> were not petty politics. They were down right shitty politics. Please if
> anything I have written here offends you, then respond to me privately. I do
> not want a big crap-fest to start over my comment or my letter.
>
> Athaulf Sweinbrothar
> ==:++:==:++:==:++:==:++:==:++:==:++:==:++:==:++:==
> If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried
> before.
>
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