I woke up this morning with my brain awirl, the subconscious was concerned over something that I had written last night that the implications of it were that it set up a false archetype for the yazirian. So i lay there composing the following material in my head and eventually got up to type it lest I loose it. Funny thing, though, I cant find any material that I posted that could be pointed to as the cause for this. Non the less, I post the material for the worthy consideration of my fellow Frontiersman. (and no I did not watch a certain over played movie/play this year- if you are wondering)<br /><br />Clans of any size appoint <font size="3"><b>clan stewards</b></font> who oversee assets and manage property. Clan stewards have developed a stereotype of being fastidious at collecting every credit of rent due. Humans, naturally, resurrected the ghost of literature past and dubbed this stereotype the yazirian miser or Ebenezer.<br /><br />This truth is that a clan steward is not really a greedy miser. As a matter of honor he feels he must be a good steward of clan property and assets and that means obtaining fair market value or (perferably) better for them, especially from non clan members. He's greatly concerned with his legacy and wants to discharge this responsibility with great fidelity. He may even leave a clan member "hanging" if he believes they are well able to do for themselves, usually this is a youthful clan member and its motivated by both good stewardship and the desire to instruct the youth in self reliance. <br /><br />Because the saying, "If you dont get the joke, its probably about you." is classic in yazirian society since meeting the other three major space faring races. Yazirians have investigated the source of the Ebenzer reference in case it was an insult that required action. They have seen the play.<br /><br />Yazirian cultural glasses cause them to view it differently.<br /><br /> Ebenezer is to be commended as a dutiful steward of clan property. His actions are very admirable. His lack of generocity to the clanless is perhaps too strict but his honor in discharging his stewardship as clan steward is untarnished. <br /><br />The change that comes over him at the end is perhaps too extreme, generocity to the poor and clanless is a yazirian cultural value and shows the greatness of a clan that performs it. The excess presented in the end of the play is understood because of the presence of the Clan Spirits. Modern yazirians can be a little supersticious concerning spirits of the dead and clan spirits even though they profess to not beleive in the crude beliefs of millenia ago. They all assume that the visitation of clan spirits warrents the excess even while they do question some of it.<br /><br />They all wonder what a Christmas Goose tastes like and assume it must be a sweet meat. They pity the the Cratchet clan for having slipped so low socially and economically that the cub Tiny Tim would find some vile dralasite pudding appetizing- this brings a strong reaction in yazirian audiences. Often a Yazirian audience will errupt quite vocally in hoots and lip buzzes (yaz booing) at this point in the play.<br /><br />Some wonder if Ebenezer's Life Enemy is frivolity or something similar. Those that wonder this assume that the Clan Spirits needed to intervene to tell Ebenezer that his life enemy is defeated and allow him to bring greater ballance to his life by championing generocity. Ebenezer is to be admired that he would fight his life enemy even beyond defeating it. Very commendable in deed.<br /><br />Ebenzer's nephew is viewed with some disgust over his frivolity but the repectful attitude toward his uncle is commended. Some think he should throw down and challenge his friends that mock his uncle and others despise him for not doing so.<br /><br />Yazirians wonder that the Scrooge/Christmas Clan is so small and what its ultimate fate should be, since the nephew is obviously an adult and has not sired any cubs, shameful, unless he cannot then its just tragect.<br /><br />Over all the yazirian view of Ebenzer is a heroic and honorable. his behavior before and after the clan spirit visitations is commendable, though with some slight hesitation on how far it changes after the visitation. Some find his actions during some of the visitations troubling (fear and trembling) but then visitations by clan spirits is something to be feared even while most assume they will stand up to it better then ebenezer did. Ebenezer is held up as an example of finding balance. The play often provokes debate among yazirians over what the future of the Scrooge/Christmas clan could or should be. Many think that Ebenezer should or will adopt the Cratchet clan to breathe new life and blood into the clan and possibly to save the cubs from eating vile dralasite pudding.<br /><br />There are now college level courses being taught on planets like Yast and Hargut on the literature of Dickens. Clan structure and values are being read into Victorian society and some professors now insist that you have not read Dickens unless you've read him in the original Yazirian.<br /><br />A new view of humanity is evolving that they have lost thier prior clan structure to their society, its taken as a morality tale of what will happen to yazirian society if it continues to be too much influenced by the values of the other races. The Family of One has seized on this and suddenly in a reversal of his stance on "A Christmas Carol" has suddenly embraced the play and its message, though only with yazirian actors performing it.
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