[Ravensfort] Fwd: Re: [Ansteorra] What has happened?
L T
ldeerslayer at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 4 10:36:02 PDT 2005
This was written by Master Robin of Gilwell in response to
a thread on the Ansteorran list. I thought ya'll might be
interested...
Lorraine
--- rudin <rudin at mail.ev1.net> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 01:45:01 -0500
> From: "rudin" <rudin at mail.ev1.net>
> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] What has happened?
>
> I think it's important not to over-romanticize the Society of
> twenty-five years ago.
>
> I picked up cigarette butts and other trash on Monday morning at
> my first Steppes Warlord, accompanied by people who told me that
> the SCA always left a site cleaner than we found it. That didn't
> mean, even then, that nobody left trash out -- it meant that some
> of us went around and picked up trash at the end of the event.
> The same thing happens today. It was just *easier* to pick up
> after 70 people in 1979 than after several hundred people today.
>
> When I joined the SCA, the first kingdom newsletter I received had
> a letter from somebody who was resigning all of her awards and
> leaving because Chivalry had died, the Dream was dead, people were
> no longer helping and supporting each other, respect was gone,
> etc. That was in the 1970s. I have heard similar statements ever
> since.
>
> Don Quixote was about the lost knightly virtues; King Arthur was
> trying to hold back the encroaching barbarism. Renaissance
> tournaments were attempts to hold onto a vanishing way of life;
> the Middle Ages wished for the glories of Rome; Rome mourned for
> the loss of the great Greek society, which pined for the lost
> Golden Age.
>
> OF COURSE Chivalry is dying. Chivalry is *always* dying. It was
> dying in the Renaissance. It was dying in the Middle Ages. It
> will be dying one hundred years hence.
>
> Chivalry is always and forever on the brink of death, and will
> always and forever need immediate first aid. From you. From me.
>
> Go pick up somebody else's trash (as well as your own). Go carry
> someone's ice chest for her. Go believe well of someone despite
> the rumor you heard. Go apologize for last week's mistake. Go
> defend someone you don't like.
>
> And hurry. Chivalry is dying.
>
> Robin of Gilwell/Jay Rudin
>
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