At the last count we had the following sects suddenly appeared:
Anti Pebbles / Pro Tea-lights
Pro Pebbles / Anti Tea-lights
Anti Pebbles / Anti Tea-lights
Pro Pebbles / Pro Tea-lights
Anti Tea-lights but only if they're lavender scented
Anti Pebbles / Pro Harriet Harman
Anti Women Archdruids
Anti Men Archdruids
Anti Gay Women Archdruids
Anti all Archdruids
Pro Gay Handfasting
Anti Gay Handfasting
Anti Anyone Handfasting
Pro Jilted John (we think this may have crept in by mistake)
Anti Lager / Pro Harriet Harman for Archdruid
New Labour (we think someone may be really demented)
Pro Tea-lights / Anti Harriet Harman / Pro Swine Flu
And so on. And so on. Internet blood has been spilt as Pro-Jilted John Beaker Folk have proven why Harriet Harman is the Evil One incarnate. And vice-versa.
At the last count there were 135 different positions being taken, each with its own dedicated website, and each showing an impeccable logic as to why the position being taken was right and all others wrong.
Which is a considerable number more divisions than we actually have Beaker People.
And so far nobody has made a stand for the position "We're all in this together in this broken world. Let's show some decency and charity".
So clearly there's no danger of that happening. I'm off to get my cricket bat. You'd all better watch out.
Dear Archdruid,
ReplyDeletethe way things are going, you will soon have anthropologists studying your community, participant-observer style, along the lines of Mary Douglas' work.
Beware of these heathen swine.