Open Question

[jarandhel]

What are the vices of the Seelie Court? What are the virtues of the UnSeelie Court? And vice versa?

I'd prefer it if members of each court answered about their negative perspectives of their own courts and their positive perspectives of the ones they don't belong to, since I can see this quickly getting into a set of accusations or propaganda and away from reality if people start talking negatively about courts they don't belong to and positively about ones they do. But I won't be too strict about that as long as people are trying to be constructive in their answers.

What's negative about each of these courts? What's positive about each of them?

I have the weirdest hunch that the responses I get back are going to correspond quite well to two human groups I'm observing... which kinda freaks me out.

Comments

Seelie vices

[netdancer.livejournal.com]

Inflexibility. Adherence to Order. Tradition over innovation. If you let it run wild, you can become entrapped in an amber of the mind, pinioned by stasis.

[ellseth.livejournal.com]

I suppose that they could be vices and virtues at the same time. All are accepted, no one is ever turned away. Emotional extremes, everything is felt. Change is needed, wanted and welcomed. Nothing is accomplished without change and chaos.

[zaecus.livejournal.com]

Freaked out, yet?

[ebonhost.livejournal.com]

Why does the way it seems to work out seem to be odd? Seelie does not equal good, after all. Tradition and order gone wrong can lead to stagnation, inflexibility, and intolerance.

We have both Seelie and Unseelie in our system. On both sides there are the good and bad examples of their kind. It's when vices or virtues are too strongly expressed that there becomes problems.

It is all a game of balance.

[ellseth.livejournal.com]

In many ways I find the concept of comparing the Seelie/Unseelie to the Democrats/Republicans extremely awkward. Even if you just consider the cultural aspects of things thrown into the history leading up to the time of the Courts... Maybe I am not seeing or feeling something, but I do not see the comparison to a large extent.

[rhiannasilel.livejournal.com]

You know, those are two terms I haven't seen or used in ages. They just don't quite feel right in the evolution of my awakening, if that makes any sense. I suppose it's because the Tuatha simply don't have the Seelie/Unseelie distinctions, or maybe once we did and don't anymore, hard to say, really.

When I was still using those terms, I thought of them as being more like political parties with the Unseelie being slightly more conservative and the Seelie being more liberal. In other words, the Unseelie would be the otherworldly equivalent of the Republicans and the Seelie would be like the Democrats -- please don't hit me when I say that, as it's just a very broad generalized kinda/sorta like this thing.