[MR] In defense of inauthenticity

[Michael Houghton]

Howdy!

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:54:42AM -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:55:24AM -0500, gormofberra at direcway.com wrote:
> 
> > I'd love to have a million dollars and adequate time to study all of
> > the aspects of perfect medievalism and have the "perfect" kit.
> 
> This is known as "making perfection the enemy of the good."
> 
No. I didn't hear Gorm refusing to do anything unless he had those 
plentiful resources, nor demanding that anyone in particular seek 
"perfection". 

Wouldn't you like to have the independent means to permit you to pursue
your hobby without having to worry about how much you spend in that
pursuit? It's a fine fantasy, so long as you don't let reality paralyze
you into indecision and nothing-doing.

I hear Gorm articulating which aspects of medievilism *he* finds worth
devoting particular attention to. I don't hear him even hinting that
his choices should be anyone else's -- simply that he finds the current
trend to be someone else imposing *their* priorities on him.

If your post didn't omit so much context, this would be obvious (or
so I thought).

yours,
Herveus
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