SR - perceptions of importance ...

[j'lynn yeates]

On 20 Jan 99, at 11:45, Bob Dewart wrote:

> Are you saying that recognizing peoples accomplishments is unimportant? 
> Are you saying that the part where the Crown calls that person into Court
> is unimportant?

no, what i am saying is that it is not important to all people (one size does 
*not* fit all) ... what i am saying is that it is not required for everyones 
enjoyment in the game ... what i am saying is that it is not important to the 
exclusion of all else ... what i am saying is that there are more important 
things to be focusing on at this point in time .... what i am saying is that 
the incessant berating of everyone for not cranking out mass-trinkets in this 
pointless "challange" is becoming annoying in the extremes.  

is it any wonder you are getting less and less response?  you are right in a 
earlier post when you claim your award challenge is being ignored ... because 
increasingly it is.  why is it being ignored?  primarily because it has become 
a mojor annoyance and people usually have better things to do than be annoyed.  
best way to cope with annoyance .... ignore it until it goes away.
 
> my point is THIS:  If if it isn't taken care of it won't be taken care of.

you're selling the people of this kingdom, region, and the proto-principality 
quite short there.  personally, i have a lot more faith in the populous (based 
on experience and observation over the years).  our kingdon (and prior, 
principality, and prior proto-principality ... back into the mists to SCAtime 
(g)) history has show that these things tend to get done quite adequately.  

when a job of importance comes up, there's usually a qualified volunteer to 
step up (or be drafted) and take up the necessary yoke.  point here is you see 
something as a necessity ... most others involved see it as a luxury that can 
be dealt with when resources allow.  

> Someone is working on the name. Someone is working on the legal stuff.
> Someone if working on the heraldy. Someone is working on the vote. And I'm
> sure someone is working on a bunch of other things too. It just seems that
> no one gives the south end of a north bound rodant about the awards
> regalia.

this being ansteorra, "a northern end of a south bound 'dillo" would be a much 
better idiom ... which is correct, most don't care about the awards regalia at 
the level that you do, at thsi time.  possibly because most consider it of 
lesser importance than the bigger issues to hand (and to my mind, rightly so).  

you have your opinion, they/we have ours ... no problem.  problem comes when we 
are constantly bombarded with messages attempting to "rectify" our points of 
view.  face it, no matter how many time you issue your challenge, no matter how 
many lists you do it on, using the tactics you have adopted to date, you will 
not alter the opinions of your audience or in any way change how they views the 
importance of the matter.    

remember, a challenge is a open invitation ... it's really up to the person(s) 
on the other end to choose whether or not to contest.  there is just as much 
honor in ignoring or walking away from such a challenge as accepting it.  there 
is no way to force people to accept (then it's no longer a challange, more like 
a press-gang) and berateing others for not accepting is not at all a honorable 
thing.  it only degrades the importance of the origional challenge and insures 
that fewer and fewer will even bother listening to such in the future.

really seems that stocking awards as you are trying to champion is a classic 
case of putting the cart before the horse.  energies expended in that direction 
could probably be much better spent on more pressing issues.    

advice ... it obviously isn't working at present, so let it go for now.  maybe 
this time next year you'll have more receptive audience.  at the moment i'ld 
say the patient has expired and you are beating that proverbial dead horse.  at 
the very least i would council a retreat and re-assement of tactics, this 
assault is making no headway at all.

'wolf 


... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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