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In article <1993Jan3.170200.19888@news.unomaha.edu>, dburgdor@cwis.unomaha.edu (Darryl Burgdorf) writes:
> 
> Unto (Lord?) Graydon, and the rest of the Rialto, come greetings!
> 
> 
>> 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
> 
> 
> I must admit, I truly like the carpentry line.  ;)
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 	In service,
> 
> 		Ld Elwyn of Thornbury
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I tend to agree with Graydon that our Royalty are what we make them. They
really have no way of inforceing their whims on us other then what we are
willing to accept as individuals. It is our desire to make our lives better
that creates the "mythos" in the first place. It was some individual like you
or me who donated his time and skills to produce the regalia. It is only when
we come together as individuals that the SCA has meaning. It is you and me and
every newbee and duke who are the SCA. It is us who make Royalty special
becouse " WE ARE SPECIAL ".

                          Mackenzie.