SCA Knight seeks elective office!
In my 20 years as an SCA knight, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on the meaning of knighthood, the responsibilities of chivalry, and just where to draw the line between seeking to live my ideals in the SCA and living them 24/7.It seems to me that unless you're incorporating the ideals of chivalry into your "real" life, your non-SCA regular life, then what you do in the SCA is just an act. That may make it easier, but it certainly makes it less real.
And it seems to me also that the primary duty of a knight, of anyone who tries to live up to the code of chivalry, is to defend the weak.
In the SCA, it's pretty much taboo in most times and places to discuss mundane politics, and that's probably as it should be.
But I've come to the conclusion that a set of circumstances which have arisen which compell me to seek elective office in the State of Illinois. I am going to be an independent candidate for State Representative, in the 62nd district.
Check it out!
4 comments:
Good luck to you from the far corner of Drachenwald (Shire of Ma'ale Giborim ie Israel)
Thanks very much!
- Galen
Best of luck to you Sir!
I understand completely. I feel exactly the same way, and stood as a candidate in an election in my then district of the City of Greater Dandenong (Victoria, Australia) a few years ago. The oaths I swore as a Companion of the Order of the Pelican when I was elevated to that Noble Order in 1987 in the Kingdom of the West, by the hands of Jade and Anastacia, are as relevant in modern society as they are in the SCA.
I wish you well in your endeavor.
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