[MR] In defense of inauthenticity

[logan]

sigh....

no one has banned the precious coleman chairs.  no one has said you must
meet any standard to sit down.  if your kid vomits on your bathing suit do
you still jump in the pool?  sure there are a 1000 excuses for the cover to
the chair being lost, stolen, missing, abducted, whatever so i dont get what
point you are trying to make with that.

coleman chairs have no place in an organization that is supposed to be about
the middle ages.  can you explain how they do?

im at a loss

logan

-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of
gormofberra at direcway.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:26 PM
To: Marybeth Lavrakas
Cc: Merry Rose
Subject: Re: [MR] In defense of inauthenticity


Let's see...

1. You forgot it at home...no it isn't a "good" reason, but it shouldn't
result in your not being able to sit down. 2. Your baby threw up on it 3.
You lent it to a friend for some other purpose 4. You had to change a spare
tire on the way up to the event, used the fabric as a ground cover to
protect your Elizebethan dress, and left it on the side of the highway. 5.
The hall needed fabric for a wall hanging to screen off the kitchen area,
and you were the only person on site who had some.

I could go on and on.  And yes, I've had some of these happen to me.

However, you're missing my point.  My point isn't that I should be able to
sit in my naked Coleman chair on the side of the field as a matter of right,
my point is that rather than *banning* something for failure to comply with
an arbitrary standard, instead *encourage* people to meet that standard, and
maybe even exceed it, by rewarding excellence.

When you say "You must meet this standard", you get a lot of activity right
at that standard, and have to ban people who don't meet it.  When you say
"Here is a shiny object because you excelled", you get a lot of excellence,
AND you don't have to ban anyone.

Which is more likely to result in a larger pool of people with fewer hurt
feelings?

----- Original Message -----
From: Marybeth Lavrakas <katrous at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:01 pm
Subject: Re: [MR] In defense of inauthenticity

> There are plenty of reasons to use a Coleman chair,
> but I can't think of a good reason not to cover it up
> with some cloth...
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