Which brings up another question - Is it the responsibility of the Crown and Kingdom to make a concerted effort to look for signs of "marginalization" and attempt to correct it? The responsibility of those who feel marginalized to FIND ways to be part of the Kingdom? Or just a sign that things have changed and it might be time to re-evaluate the entire relationship?
I think the responsibility in an ideal world would be shared. However, having been around multiple reign by now, I can tell you that there is hardly time to breathe and so unless an issue is pressing (and probably past the point where it should've been looked at) many times I don't know that everything is really brought to the attention of the crown. I think there is a bit of a Wizard of Oz situation where people think that the Crown has all this power and is all seeing and all knowing, when in fact, they are two people trying to balance the demands of their everyday lives with the full-time responsibility of ruling.
It's easy to say that the Crown doesn't care because the Crown is them, The Man, but it takes work to look at how a bad situation can be fixed and how a good situation can be made great. In the case of Northshield (the only kingdom I've been around for the breaking off of), I could tell from the very beginning when I started playing that they were different. They were still very much Middle Kingdom, but the difference in culture was striking. It seemed natural to me that they would break off to become their own group. I mostly think that people are afraid of change and so anything that causes change is therefore bad.
Should the administration do pulse checks to see how the weather is? Yes. Should those feeling left out make an effort to reach out? Yes. For whatever reason, in these kind of situations people seem to look for reasons to be negative rather than positive and then the power struggle ensues.
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Date: 2010-06-10 09:53 pm (UTC)Which brings up another question - Is it the responsibility of the Crown and Kingdom to make a concerted effort to look for signs of "marginalization" and attempt to correct it? The responsibility of those who feel marginalized to FIND ways to be part of the Kingdom? Or just a sign that things have changed and it might be time to re-evaluate the entire relationship?
I think the responsibility in an ideal world would be shared. However, having been around multiple reign by now, I can tell you that there is hardly time to breathe and so unless an issue is pressing (and probably past the point where it should've been looked at) many times I don't know that everything is really brought to the attention of the crown. I think there is a bit of a Wizard of Oz situation where people think that the Crown has all this power and is all seeing and all knowing, when in fact, they are two people trying to balance the demands of their everyday lives with the full-time responsibility of ruling.
It's easy to say that the Crown doesn't care because the Crown is them, The Man, but it takes work to look at how a bad situation can be fixed and how a good situation can be made great. In the case of Northshield (the only kingdom I've been around for the breaking off of), I could tell from the very beginning when I started playing that they were different. They were still very much Middle Kingdom, but the difference in culture was striking. It seemed natural to me that they would break off to become their own group. I mostly think that people are afraid of change and so anything that causes change is therefore bad.
Should the administration do pulse checks to see how the weather is? Yes. Should those feeling left out make an effort to reach out? Yes. For whatever reason, in these kind of situations people seem to look for reasons to be negative rather than positive and then the power struggle ensues.