[Sca-cooks] Re: Wheatabix

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Bill Fisher:
>I get accused of "not playing the game" when in period for me there
>is only one ard-ri Gaidel Erenn - Brian Boruma mac Cennetig.

The concept of the game has changed over the years. While that's not 
inherently bad, it _is_ bad when people pretend things are as they 
always were.

>Also in any other period, what? The Irish...follow royalty?  Is that my
>land you are standin on?

It's not just the Irish; they were just being good tribal people, and 
their concept of kingship was very different. On the other hand, some 
SCAdians today act as if Magna Carta was some new concept made up out 
of whole cloth by crazed pinko extremists, when in fact it was merely 
social chiropractic -- the correction of a trend that was itself 
aberrant.

Then there are the Scots who wrote and signed the Declaration of 
Arbroath, a document which could easily have inspired the American 
Declaration of Independence, but which also clearly echoes the 
writings of Seneca. These were not new concepts in 1776, and I 
confess I get a little creeped out when people suggest it's fun to 
hand over my free will for a day on the weekends, because, they say, 
it is the period thing to do.

I prefer to think of Royalty in the older, Golden Bough sense: 
someone who is investing his or her life in the success of the 
venture we call the kingdom, but who is working in partnership with 
the people.

As for Charlie Windsor, I suspect a few Weetabix would do him good.

Adamantius, off the Weetabix box

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brioche."
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Rousseau, "Confessions", pub 1782

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