THE PURITANS AMONG US
Oh lordy they are out there!!! The bdsm idealists are bad enough, but the bdsm puritans are the worst. I would rather be trapped among inebriated Old Guard drunks than spend an hour in the presence of these god-awful, self-righteous, pompous bores. They have taken the old religious custom of being "holier-than-thou" and have raised it to the level of a plague upon the scene. If there is something you enjoy, something that gives you pleasure, something that makes you happy these imbeciles will find some reason why should not do it.
Just take a look at their web sites. They will always begin with a panagyric to SSC and why all should bow before it and sacrifice the virgin newbies to it and grovel on their bellies up to it. And that is only the beginning.
From there they go to the praise and exhaltation of "Community" another word before which all are expected to kneel, burn incense and be rear-ended by the bdsm Pope. It is all part of the control process because you see Mencken was right. In the soul of every puritan there is the haunting fear that someone somewhere might be happy and ours are no exception to that rule.
And if that doesn't work there will be the usual prattle exhaulting "Education!" Never mind that the education consists of demonstrations of the latest fucking machines and in a more civilized era such things were called peep shows.
The puritan control process is an interesting one. They don"t have the numbers to enforce their ideas and they are just smart enough to realize that it is very easy for people to go their own way and ignore them (unlike the morons of the Old Guard who think their every rheume and whine is holy and it really matters who wears the funny hat) so they use SSC and "community" as a means of trying to force obedience to their dictates. Using those two ideas as a starting point, they attempt to create clubs to beat all into submission to their way of thinking. If they disapprove of something, they merely claim, with much verbiage (rhymes with garbage) that what they don't like violates their definition of SSC or somehow is contrary to what they perceive of as the spirit of "Community." And then they sit and they purr and they coo about how "non-judgemental" they are when all they ever do is be judgemental, but of course it is in the service of the "Community" and therefore doesn't count against them.
BULLHOCKEY!!!
We are under no obligation to modify our views, or our behavior one iota to satisfy the ravings of the puritans. They are nothing to us except that watching them get all upset when they are ignored is so much fun. So we will let them rant and rave and get all upset over how people gossip in the scene. They are the ones we will be gossiping about and we will be enjoying every deliciously malevolent word of it.
Oh lordy they are out there!!! The bdsm idealists are bad enough, but the bdsm puritans are the worst. I would rather be trapped among inebriated Old Guard drunks than spend an hour in the presence of these god-awful, self-righteous, pompous bores. They have taken the old religious custom of being "holier-than-thou" and have raised it to the level of a plague upon the scene. If there is something you enjoy, something that gives you pleasure, something that makes you happy these imbeciles will find some reason why should not do it.
Just take a look at their web sites. They will always begin with a panagyric to SSC and why all should bow before it and sacrifice the virgin newbies to it and grovel on their bellies up to it. And that is only the beginning.
From there they go to the praise and exhaltation of "Community" another word before which all are expected to kneel, burn incense and be rear-ended by the bdsm Pope. It is all part of the control process because you see Mencken was right. In the soul of every puritan there is the haunting fear that someone somewhere might be happy and ours are no exception to that rule.
And if that doesn't work there will be the usual prattle exhaulting "Education!" Never mind that the education consists of demonstrations of the latest fucking machines and in a more civilized era such things were called peep shows.
The puritan control process is an interesting one. They don"t have the numbers to enforce their ideas and they are just smart enough to realize that it is very easy for people to go their own way and ignore them (unlike the morons of the Old Guard who think their every rheume and whine is holy and it really matters who wears the funny hat) so they use SSC and "community" as a means of trying to force obedience to their dictates. Using those two ideas as a starting point, they attempt to create clubs to beat all into submission to their way of thinking. If they disapprove of something, they merely claim, with much verbiage (rhymes with garbage) that what they don't like violates their definition of SSC or somehow is contrary to what they perceive of as the spirit of "Community." And then they sit and they purr and they coo about how "non-judgemental" they are when all they ever do is be judgemental, but of course it is in the service of the "Community" and therefore doesn't count against them.
BULLHOCKEY!!!
We are under no obligation to modify our views, or our behavior one iota to satisfy the ravings of the puritans. They are nothing to us except that watching them get all upset when they are ignored is so much fun. So we will let them rant and rave and get all upset over how people gossip in the scene. They are the ones we will be gossiping about and we will be enjoying every deliciously malevolent word of it.