From: dagoura@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9401181659.AA18407@al-burro.MIT.EDU>
To: carolingia@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Principality Meeting
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 11:59:40 EST


Justin, I got a different impression from the Principality meeting.  I
attended and I do not want to join the hypothetical Northern
Principality.  I overwhelmingly got the feeling that R&K were trying
to find out if there was enough support to justify doing another poll,
and that no one was willing to tell them that there was.  Which is why
I suggested the helm idea.  Unfortunately R&K were more interested in
using it as a fundraising device than a barometer of support.  For
those of you who could hear the mumble, the announcement was to this
effect: that money put into the helm would go to the cost of doing
another Northern Principality polling.  The cost to do a polling,
according to R&K at the meeting, is ~$0.25 times 1200 members, or
~$300 (Canadian postage is more).  As I commented to them, passing a
helm would let you know whether or not there was adequate support
immediately. 

I would be very interested in hearing people's positions.  Harold, I
hadn't ever heard someone speak against the entirety of the
Principality, only against their own group joining it; I therefore
would very much like to hear your reasons.  So far, I do not believe I
want to be in the Principality, but I have nothing against other
groups going their own way.  My reasons against joining a Northern
Principality are these: (1) I would prefer to remain part of the
longer, more venerable traditions of the East, while the N.P. seems
bent on leaving the Kingdom eventually (2) I am aware that certain
prominent members of the N.P. movement have felt it necessary to argue
to other Northerners (in Stonemarch, in Maine, etc.) that Carolingia
and other strong "southern" groups would be "useful" to the
principality (with all their peers and current and ex-kingdom office
holders) and should thus be tolerated -- and I will not go were I am
"tolerated" but not welcomed.

But I am not deeply attached to these beliefs, and might well be
convinced otherwise.  I would certainly  be interested in hearing not
only other views but other options.  I would like to know, Tibor, what
you think the benefit of a Central Region Principality would be.

Hoping to hear from you!

Tibicen
dagoura@mit.edu

Did I really just ask for more email??