Disappointed, but not surprised.

Written by thehouseofvines

What the hell? Y’all know that I have no love for Andrew Carlson, the alcoholic, misogynistic, animal-abusing, megalomaniac who larped as a social justice warrior and authority on all things Thracian, but it has been nine days since his fiery demise and there hasn’t been a single mention on the Wild Hunt. I readily admit my opinion is a minority one, and a lot of folks who didn’t know him as well as I did held him in high esteem and lauded his contributions to the contemporary polytheist movement, so these would-be journos’ complete silence is quite striking. Apparently they have given up all pretense of covering community news unless there is some way to turn it into an anti-Trump screed. I should be shocked and disappointed, and yet somehow I am not.

Edited to add: looks like they finally got one up. ‘Bout fucking time. 

21 thoughts on “Disappointed, but not surprised.”

  2. Well, I stopped reading them since they started seeing Progressive Politics as the Pagan religion.

    Perhaps Carlson’s death was just too much for them. I do believe that either it was a frayed plug or something of that nature. I don’t know if he was unconscious from smoke or something else. But it was not the type of death that the community wants to report on, since he was not an elder. Was he active in his later years or did he withdraw? Or are there more people who either don’t care or do not know him or do not like him?

    Maybe everyone moved on and forgot about him since the contemporary Polytheist movement fell apart over politics.

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    1. I suspect you’re right, plus staring at screens so much has given folks the memories of gerbils. This is why I’ve argued that we need to do a better job collecting and recording the history of polytheist revivalism. Most Hellenic Polytheists have no idea that there was a community in the 80s and 90s who communicated primarily through the letters section of a ‘zine this guy used to put out. I have a near complete collection of the run, which was given to me by the publisher at one of the first big conventions I organized. It belongs in an archive somewhere, not my private library. I’ve considered digitizing them, but see no point in doing that for a community that’s become what HP has.

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      1. No idea; ever since Polytheist.com stopped updating I hadn’t heard anything from or about him.

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        1. Ditto. I mean, we’d stopped talking before that point, but several good friends (and even my wife) wrote for the site, so I kept up with him via it. Apparently he got really active on Facebook which contributed to the abandonment of his personal blog and polytheist.com

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    3. yes, and they note the Polytheist Leadership Conference and the NY Regional Diviners’ conference. *I* organized those. *I* paid for them out of pocket (and charged nothing for attendees). *I* was the one who put the panels together. He was one of many panels there but Wildhunt would fucking die before they acknowledged thew work I or Sannion do. He had nothing to do with organizing them or any of the grunt work and Gods know not any of the financial crap that went into those conferences.

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  4. I’ve considered digitizing them, but see no point in doing that for a community that’s become what HP has
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    So how do people archive information that can be useful? I have my blog, but should I take the Roman stuff and put it on its own website or publish books? I am not sure if any community can be rebuilt consider how much politics has entered them. I see people balkanizing into Progressive and Conservative groups, with animosity towards each other. I have encountered the Progressive groups more especially when they cry that Politics is Religion and that Politics is Progressive because PEOPLE”S LIVES ARE AT STAKE! Sigh.

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    2. If you want/need encouragement to publish books, whether with a small publisher or Lulu, consider this your daily dose! I have faith that books eventually end up in the hands of people who need them, although it may be years or decades later.

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  5. HofL: How peculiar that they only mentioned those conferences. Sometimes what’s not said is more important than what is
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    Actually what people recall is precisely that – when he was active in the Polytheistic community and contributing. You can refer to that. His FaceBook postings seem to have gone on the bye and bye.

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      1. FaceBook is structured that if you are not his friend, you don’t see postings. Also, the postings on a given page is conversational, and does disappear, unless you are very intrepid in reading as much as you can. In other words, they are not that easy to find and read like Polytheist.com which can be assessed by anybody.

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        1. That doesn’t sound very sociable for social media. Then again, I stopped keeping up after everyone made the jump from livejournal to long-form blogging, so I don’t know where all the childrens is hanging out, or what’s considered normal these days.

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