--- ilr <ilr_at_riflenet.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryokyo Lyons" <oykoyr_at_yahoo.com>
> To: <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Thoughs on a problem
>
>
> > Furries are, as a community, very "tech literate"
> > people. We have both the resources and the know
> how to
> > solve this problem.
> > But do we have the will?
> > That is our true problem.
> >
>
> Motivation is a Resource. So, we do not have ALL
> the resources.
Pity that. My first impulse was to disagree here, but
upon reflection, it can be said that you have a point,
sadly enough.
It can also be said that one never knows what one has
until it is gone, as we have already found out.
One would hope that nothing more than experience would
teach us that when in peril, one usually finds course
for common good and common action.
We have no back-ups, no mirrors, no second sites for
all this, excepting perhaps skunked.com.
I'm just frankly amazed that so many furries who
proport to like what we have here, and the people
behind it, won't do anything , mostly because it's not
*their* tail getting chewed on.
> And while all of us want to be inspired, the
> landscape and cultures
> divide us.
Here's an absolutely sterling chance to change our
"image" and our self-image. There are very few walls
(yet) in cyberspace. That's why the Net scares heck
out of lots of people whose survival depends on
mono-idealism, and the quashing of alternative voices.
> It might be possible that Furotica
> subgroups might be
> the ones most easily brought together...But it
> quickly falls apart again
> because of divisions in Gender
> inconsistant communication,
> and much of the fanbase is underage/broke/or/too
> afraid of being
> caught with "furry" by RL peers.
True. Those are the next big issues we'll have to
tackle before the furry generations turn again. It's a
sad truth to say that most of the time when Furries
agree, it is to turn against someone or something
else.
> ...That, and if we finally got a real "Leader",
> no one would follow
> because everyone's too busy marching to the beat of
> a different drummer.
That's another aspect of this problem in particular.
We don't need someone in a general's uniform with a
swagger stick (goodness knows we have enough of that
in daily life already.)
What this problem needs is co-ordination of existing
resources into a solution. We have all the parts, and
we know how to hook cable A into port B. But it takes
everyone giving *a little bit* *all the time* like
I've said before with Furnation and that mess.
> You could substitute "Leader" for Any centralizing
> force, whether it
> be an Archive, Mailing List, Con, or what have you.
>
Well then, let us make an absolutely base appeal to
the one thing that seems to "unite" unapologetiche
core of it all.
Blatant, unappologetic self-interest.
Someone out there in "bogey land" is going to try
(sooner or later) to take "all this"away from you.
No more skunk girls, no more watermellons :) They are
going to try to ram something else up your backside
(without lube)
What are *you* going to do about it?
Me, I'm a skunk, too. As much as I enjoy assuming
various postions for people and things that I like,
I'm not bending over for this one.
I could retreat, and cower, but Nature didn't color
skunks that way.
> Frankly, we're all paralyzed by this specter of a
> Puritanic society.
That's the thing. I'm not paralyzed by all this. I'm
not a bird, mezmerized by a snake. I'm good angry,
which means I'm willing and ready to do something
about someone wiping their muddy feet all over my back
stripe. Skunks are a hard-headed lot. I know that if
the people with muddy feet make doormats out of us,
they'll be on to doing it to some one else tomorrow,
because it will be easier to do, and because doing it
whets an appitite among people who think they can get
away with it.
If we don't do something, who will?
Goes back to one of my favorite sayings: "If not me,
who and if not now, when?"
My intention all along has been to be a voice of
warning and preparedness. A long cold winter is
coming. Are we all to be grasshoppers?
We'll
> never see our full potential realized until it goes
> away on it's own power.
The only "people" who can undo what we can do is us.
That much is true. But I've lived too long and been
too free not to realize that the other side of that is
"The only "people" who can do for us is we ourselves."
> And there's no way to accelerate that process.
But there is!
So
> lay low, and just hang in there.
Lay low isn't very far from "lay down" as far as I can
see, and as I said before, hobnailed jackboot prints
don't go well with black and white fur.
No.
Stand up.
Think.
and then
Act.
Thank you for the civil reply and an intelligently
written message, by the way.
Roci
(Ps Just as an aside, has anyone else had troubles
with the Yahoo spell checker? I find that it messes up
my formating and overwrites sections of the text that
do not contain any errors-R)
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Received on Sat Nov 30 2002 - 02:17:18 CST