I understand that specifically, you're talking about the obliviousness of people complaining how actual piracy sucks the fun out of mythologizing piracy. I agree, it's silly to complain current events are interfering with your fantasy life.
However, you also spent a lot of this post being down on people that enjoy the romantic ideal of pirates. You allowed they should have fun, but you find it morally questionable, even as you admitted you like Renn Faires. I don't get how ignoring the facts of piracy is any different from ignoring the poverty, disease, the abuses of the nobility, the misogyny of women as property, burnings at the stake and all the other problems of the Middle Ages/Renaissance and mythologizing them in Renn Faires.
Your post immediately brought this clip and the title to mind. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFFDdgRj3nE&NR=1) To frame it realistically, Superheroes are fascist vigilantes, who squabble among themselves create insurance claim nightmares, rather than join the Peace Corps.
My point is, you can look at the harsh facts of anything to kill the enjoyment of the mythology of something. It seems terribly inconsistent to be down on pirate lovers and embrace rest.
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Date: 2009-04-27 03:40 pm (UTC)However, you also spent a lot of this post being down on people that enjoy the romantic ideal of pirates. You allowed they should have fun, but you find it morally questionable, even as you admitted you like Renn Faires. I don't get how ignoring the facts of piracy is any different from ignoring the poverty, disease, the abuses of the nobility, the misogyny of women as property, burnings at the stake and all the other problems of the Middle Ages/Renaissance and mythologizing them in Renn Faires.
Your post immediately brought this clip and the title to mind. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFFDdgRj3nE&NR=1) To frame it realistically, Superheroes are fascist vigilantes, who squabble among themselves create insurance claim nightmares, rather than join the Peace Corps.
My point is, you can look at the harsh facts of anything to kill the enjoyment of the mythology of something. It seems terribly inconsistent to be down on pirate lovers and embrace rest.