Intergalactic Summit

I am having a party

Lady, you of all people know how ridiculously seriously people take politics.

There's 'serious' business, and there's 'SERIOUS' business.

Truth, and martial readiness. I'd take humor seriously too, but there's a kind of self-defeating paradox at work there..

Some people, sure. But not only politics, and not all people.

Harder to see people take anything seriously? I can count at least 10 threads which are mostly "serious business" on the first page alone. If you ask me, some quips lightening the mood here and there are nothing but welcome.


I wake up with the weight of my clan on my shoulders, every time. Being the only capsuleer in our clan, there are millions of people who look up to me, regard me as their saviour, the one to deliver them to greatness of days past, pummeled by expectations from every direction, both from baseliners and unnamed empyreans. I take that responsibility and those expectations seriously. If I make a joke here and there to calm myself and maybe brighten someone elses day I don't want to be whipped about it.

Ouch, sorry to hear that, at least I have almost complete support so I don't have to add "being kicked out of clan" to my worry list anytime soon.

I didn't mean to sound like it is a thankless job - but the stress can be very real even with all the well wishes and support.

I think you know what I take seriously, Elsebeth. The contents on the IGS doesn't tend to rate that level of attention, anymore. For the most part, anyway. This is mostly because you're right. The capsuleers and contents here and on other public fora have for the most part descended into parodies of what was, spineless lip-service and conflict-averse ephemera that stands for nothing when push comes to shove.

The greatest threats or concerns to be found are crimson clowns and certain cliques that occasionally swarm and then fade back into irrelevancy, and nothing of substance ever gets built or pursued it'd seem.

What is there to take seriously here, other than a vanishingly small number of individuals? It'd appear the kind of people who frequent this sort of place are also the kind who don't actually tend to be worth taking seriously out there in New Eden, so this place follows suit.

So, you know what kind of thing I take seriously, and we don't really do much of anything that qualifies as such, do we Elsebeth? Or dear whoever else is the reader. In short, this place and its denizens doesn't get taken seriously because no one here hardly ever does anything worth taking seriously.

I can't believe you're not taking my chocolate seriously

Politics, Philosophy, Humanitarianism, anything really that goes beyond and above mindless Hedonism.

As for the larger question...

Very little that percolates into the chattering nonsense of the IGS.

I take my responsibilities seriously. They're not here.

I take my job seriously. It's not here, either.

I take my people seriously—both sets, the people who have claim on me through ties of blood, upbringing, and culture, as well as those who have claim on me because of shared toil, triumph, and loss, and because I've chosen to make commitments to be responsible to, and for them. On the one hand, those people are my Clan, my Tribe, and the Matari, in increasingly attenuated and indirect line of responsibility... and on the other, they are my Logistics wing in any given fleet, RepSwarm, and the entire Imperium.

I take them seriously. I have reason to take them seriously.

With very few exceptions, none of the people here have provided me with reasons to take them seriously, and plenty of reasons not to. And that's fine. I don't expect them to feel like they should. I don't expect them to feel like they should take my statements here seriously, either.

As for regrets, or other things that affect me enough to be considered 'serious'... There are really only three or four people in the cluster who've earned the full list of those. Sorry.