[MR] OT - Is the SCA a counter-cultural movement?

[Sandi Rust]

my 2 pfenning.
   
  I don't think the SCA as a "counter-cultural" movement; rather, it is a cultural movement in a counter-cultural society.  The SCA has been around for 40 years and has seen a lot of changes; but the base concepts - chivalry, honesty, and the arts and science are all promoted by the SCA, even amongst our younglings; can't really say that about modern American society.
   
  My brother in Atenveldt responded thusly when I posed the self-same question to him: "You have to BE a culture to have a counter culture. What passes for culture nowadays is based on the whim of fad-dom. One minute this is on top, other times it's that. Geez, you'd go MAD trying to keep track of it all. A culture is based on traditions and established values and behaviour. What the US and soon the world has is a free for all. If anything, by definition the SCA could be considered a culture with the real world being the counter culture."
   
  In my opinion, we are an island of sanity in a world of insanity.
   
  YIS,
  Marie Hélène of the New Forest

 				
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