Who is the Leader of Supertopo?

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mike m

Trad climber

black hills

Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 30, 2011 - 01:20am PT

?????
Chris Mac?
Donini?
Dr. F?

Locker?

apogee

climber

Nov 30, 2011 - 01:22am PT

Weld_It

mike m

Trad climber

black hills

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 30, 2011 - 01:47am PT

John Kelly?

Rockjox?

Captain...or Skully

climber

Where are you bound?

Nov 30, 2011 - 01:51am PT

I thought we were an autonomous collective.

mike m

Trad climber

black hills

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 30, 2011 - 01:54am PT

I actually thought it was Tami?

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Nov 30, 2011 - 01:59am PT

from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scene 3

CMAC: Well, I AM king...
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
CMAC: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
CMAC: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
CMAC: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
CMAC: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
CMAC: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
CMAC: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
CMAC: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
CMAC: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
CMAC: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
CMAC: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
CMAC: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
CMAC: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
CMAC: The Lady of the Lake [angels sing], her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
CMAC: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
CMAC: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
CMAC: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
CMAC: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
CMAC: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?

(Originally posted by MisterE, I believe.)

Captain...or Skully

climber

Where are you bound?

Nov 30, 2011 - 02:02am PT

There is violence inherent in the system.

Jennie

Trad climber

Elk Creek, Idaho

Nov 30, 2011 - 02:24am PT

Great Scene 3, Anders!

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Nov 30, 2011 - 02:40am PT

another vote for "anarcho-syndicalist commune".

hooblie

climber

from where the anecdotes roam

Nov 30, 2011 - 06:58am PT

in the words of a dear friend, now deceased:
"i must catch up with the others, for i am their leader"

Reeotch

Trad climber

Kayenta, AZ

Nov 30, 2011 - 07:08am PT

Leader???

perswig

climber

Nov 30, 2011 - 08:02am PT

another vote for 'moistened bint'

Dale

SteveW

Trad climber

The state of confusion

Nov 30, 2011 - 08:29am PT

Occupy Supertopo. . .

Happy Idiot

Trad climber

Santa Fe

Nov 30, 2011 - 09:36am PT

BURT BRONSON

Norwegian

Trad climber

Placerville, California

Nov 30, 2011 - 09:59am PT

werner is hosting this party,
though involuntarily.

skipt knows the quickest way to hell:
as a mean republican,
so if hell's your destination
get behind skipt.

im going to terrapin
if anyone want to sample
everything at once.

im no leader though.
last time i tried to lead
i walked straight into a wall.
and climbed it cause aint no nothings
hinderin my dream, not even
tall mountains.

Marlow

Sport climber

OSLO

Nov 30, 2011 - 10:21am PT

There is no leader, but a lot of king candidates. My votes:

If only one king should be chosen I would have to vote for the 1st parrot subjective experience of the dead Norwegian parrot in the Monthy Pyhon sketch to which pure idea a couple of brissliant American minds are doing their best to connect in the Mind thread.

The God of ST, the ruler of ST life and death, is CMAC.

The king of climbing substance and wisdom is Donini.

The king of science and knowledge is Ed.

The king of poetry is Donald Thompson.

The king of storytelling is Patrick Oliver.

The kings of wit are TAMI and Dingus.

The dionysian fool of the site is Locker.

And basically every one is king in his/her own kingdom. Seen that way Weld-_it for king among kings is a good choice. An anarchistic communion is not far away as long as one of the political blockheads isn't running the site.

And I am more that willing to be a political blockhead in the political-blockhead-minds of Skipt, fattrad, Donald Thompson & bushco.