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The Coming Intaki Union
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Gussarde en Welle
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2012-11-13 20:56:47 UTC
Emile Belfleur wrote:
Gussarde en Welle wrote:
With all due respect, Msr. Belfleur, your personal life sounds like it's tumultuous, painful, and full of burnt bridges. Sometimes there is much to learn from relationships that have changed. They can be mutually beneficial, given enough flexibility. Enlightenment cannot be obtained if one clings desperately to the past.


My personal life is very pleasant, actually, and doesn't contain a single burned bridge as far as I'm aware. This is in no small part, I believe, due to the fact that I'm selective about which bridges I build and cross in the first place. I'm not in the habit of forming relationships that I'm likely to have to terminate in the future, which is more than can be said about the Federation itself.

As for your advice about not clinging to the past, that's an easy philosophy to hold while your own past and your own traditions are still alive and strong. The Ida is in no danger of dying out anytime soon. In contrast, the memory of Garoun fades with every passing day. Ironically, it's the very openness of the old Garoun faith and way of life that has left it open to pollution and carried it to the brink of destruction.

I am lucky to have been born and raised in Solitude, where our own culture is still valued, but it's quickly becoming the only place left. We look at the central Federation, and we see our culture forgotten and in shambles. We see Gallente youths tattooing Minmatar symbols on their bodies as cheap political or even fashion statements. We see Gallente people studying the Ida, or Achuran meditation techniques...even young Gallente artists and entertainers, cultural idols, proudly proclaiming themselves to be Sani Sabik. We see the writing on the wall. There's a reason we named our region the way we did.

Can you really blame the few of us who still cherish our past for being protective of it?


...Yes, I have traveled through Solitude on my surveying expeditions and stopped off at a few planets. You do have much culture to be remembered there. Garoun churches are beautiful and the music is haunting. I have a small library of Garoun choiral music somewhere on my cloud drive. Best fresh food and wine anywhere, even better than Intaki food, which is hard to beat, unless you don't like spicy.

It saddens me to hear that you feel the Gallentean faith and culture is being destroyed. Ultimately it is due to the warm, gregarious and open nature of your society, to which much of the greatest and most beautiful good in all the galaxy can be attributed.

There is certainly a growing tendency for people to get Matari tattoos, but even capsuleers are buying into that fad. It will fade in time. I think I even saw a few Caldari kids with Matari tattoos last time I was out at Jita, meaning that they certainly have no idea what the source is.

More unsettling are the youthful proclamations of affiliation to Sani Sabik, along with the music and imagery. This fascination with the Sabik religion frightens me. The flashy clothes drenched in red and black are fun, but I'm afraid that ignorance with respect to the actual practice of Sabik is pervasive, to the detriment of all.

However, I can't fault someone for studying Ida. Lol
Emile Belfleur
Solar Zouaves
#22 - 2012-11-14 01:25:43 UTC
Gussarde en Welle wrote:
...Yes, I have traveled through Solitude on my surveying expeditions and stopped off at a few planets. You do have much culture to be remembered there. Garoun churches are beautiful and the music is haunting. I have a small library of Garoun choiral music somewhere on my cloud drive. Best fresh food and wine anywhere, even better than Intaki food, which is hard to beat, unless you don't like spicy.


Thank you for the compliment, sieur. As an agricultural engineer whose family owns and operates several vineyards and a comfortable amount of prime farmland in Gererique, I appreciate your assessment.

Gussarde en Welle wrote:
However, I can't fault someone for studying Ida. Lol


Of course you can't - and if that were the full extent of the problem, it wouldn't be a problem at all. It's the whole picture, viewed together, that makes me fear for my culture.
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