[UA] About Avatars (was: Question)

[Epoch]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Piotr Pogorzelski wrote:

> I think this question will be answered in s/phere, but
> since I don't have it: why are all avatars indentical?
> 
> In my point of view, every person sees an avatar in a
> unique way: for one, the Good Soldier is someone who follow
> orders; for another, a Good Soldier is someone who see his
> duty beyond orders. As for the Mother: a Mother can be the
> one who really cares about you, but can also be the one who
> direct your life the way she wants it to be.
> 
> So, if everyone see an avatar in a different way, why are
> all the symbols, channels, taboos and such the same? Why
> isn't all avatars different depending the way the person
> who channels it sees it?

You're looking at the world through a fundamentally different viewpoint
than were Stolze and Tynes when they made the Avatar system.  The
Avatars/Archetypes are /predicated/ on the notion of a unified collective
opinion of certain things.  That's why there's a Mother Archetype and not
a Joe, the guy who works at the Kwik-E-Mart Archetype -- because there is
unified opinion about the Mother and not about Joe.

Now, that's not to say that everyone will believe exactly the same thing
about the Mother (or whomever), but there's assumed to be enough of a
consensus about her to make generalizations about the Archetype.  If you
follow a personal vision of what the Mother is or should be, bully for
you, but you aren't following the Archetype.

Mike

--
And smale foweles maken melodye

  --Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales


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