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Groups and quangos                                             27/8/09

Sirs,

What is it about groups and quangos that makes them think that life is all  about  those categories?

We see now a traditional arts group ? What’s that ?  We on the Isles have been "traditional" every day of our life since we were born and doing what we do for free  simply because it’s a gift and not something to be made into a quango where yet more people  get themselves  positions, akin to the Gaelic mafia  and take over the work that we all did, sometimes long before some of those people even heard of what they now call the arts .

I don’t want to go into the arts part of it, but it sounds to me like ex-college /uni type of people once again making a little niche out of our freely given traditions.

I know of plenty individuals who work alone, but then seemingly individuals are out of fashion these days!   

If you are working alone you have no chance of being in the news or receiving any support,  that we know.  But why is that ? Can anyone tell me what it is about groups for this and groups for that  that  is of any use at the end of the day I think that most groups become a clique and are insular in many ways.

Do we all not know that the best work that ever was produced  in Poetry ,  Song writing , and many other things that lasted into centuries were done by individuals.

We’re polluted by groups. Indeed if you are not in some group or other you can be fairly  ostriazised  and forgotten but I’d rather that any day than being in any group or quango.  One reason for that is freedom. We all know freedom comes at a price, even on these sacred isles, to be free of groups or having to  fit into their little boxed style of lifestyle.

Aye,  there seems to be groups for everything these days. What about a non-groups group. I’m  a bit like Buzz Lightyear,  “I work alone."                                                       

Aonghas Caimbeul,

Gearraidh na Monaidh,

Uibhist a Deas

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