Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:22:03 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 05:55 PM 4/20/05 -0400, Ted White wrote:
>From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>

>> Details?
>
>Lee Strong, given to outspoken conservative opinions, could dish it out but
>didn't like being on the receiving end.  His decision to quit was
>apparently the result of feeling outnumbered by those whose opinions did
>not mesh well with his.

Ok, thanks for the info.  I think I was in at least one or two meetings
with Lee (my re-entry into fandom involved a couple of skips ;-) and I can
sort of see that happening.  Too bad though.  It is nice to find that he
wasn't drummed out, but left on his own to find a more compatible atmosphere.

I suspect that I'm probably a bit more conservative than average for fans
too, but only where that makes sense.  On the multiple choice lists you
find on the net in some places I usually pick "liberal on social,
conservative on fiscal", which means I disagree with liberals and
conservatives both, just on different things.

What's fun is to realize that for the most part both liberals and
conservatives want the same things, they just disagree about how to achieve
them.  Neither group is all that internally consistent (i.e. in achieving
some of what they each want, they often work against their own goals in
other areas, for example, by working for a larger, stronger, more
authoritarian central government.  They keep forgetting that any government
that can give what you are demanding can also take what you want to keep).

-- Mike B.
--
"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.  There has
never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are
arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent." -- H. L. Mencken