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- From: dburgdor@cwis.unomaha.edu (Darryl Burgdorf)
- Subject: Re: non-fighting rulers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.170200.19888@news.unomaha.edu>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <9301010136.aa17106@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:02:00 GMT
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- Unto (Lord?) Graydon, and the rest of the Rialto, come greetings!
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- > Lord Elwyn, pray, why is being royalty the appropriate reward for all
- > excellence?
- >
- > The poetry that moves this great clanking anachronism has room for a
- > lot of things; permit me to doubt that it has room for 'I am Arthur,
- > King of the Britons, because I was given a set of carpentry tools
- > by the Lady of the Lake and am the second best woodworker the world
- > will ever see.' (He can't be better than St. Joseph, and Jesus is
- > unfair competition. :)
- >
- > Royalty are only special because you think they are special.
- > ( I mean, come on, what are the going to do - ride over and burn
- > down your house?)
- >
- > Graydon
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-
- I must admit, I truly like the carpentry line. ;)
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- I am not at all sure that being royalty is "the appropriate reward" for
- all excellence. I simply feel that, as (arguably) the highest station to
- which one can rise, it ought to be open to those who excell in *any* area,
- rather than only one particular one. One can attain a peerage, after all,
- through excellence in any endeavor; why cannot one likewise aspire to the
- throne similarly?
-
- Royalty are not special only because I "think they are special". They are
- special because the "mythos" of the SCA tries very hard to *make* them
- special. I didn't give them regalia or ceremony .... the SCA did.
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- In service,
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- Ld Elwyn of Thornbury
-
- (who has no delusions about ever becoming King,
- no matter *how* the choice is made.)
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