MY GOR? YOUR GOR? NO! IT IS JOHN NORMAN’S GOR AND SHOULD BE OUR GOR

I posted this quote by Marcus of Ar (from his Silk and Steel website) earlier this year on the other PG Board and reprinted it on other boards. These were his words in the By the Book column he had from November, 1997 through March, 1998. These words, which were written to start his By the Book column on December 25, 1997, were true then and just by looking at what Gor has become now I hope we look back on his words then and follow through on his hope.

Tal Goreans!

I pen these words at the end of what has been a very long and confusing year on Gorean IRC. The online community fragments constantly, sometimes splitting into smaller and smaller pockets of like-minded individuals, each of which has it's own unique views and feelings regarding Gor. But at the same time, many of these isolated pockets of online Goreans seem to be moving in the same direction, like separate trickles, eddies, and currents drawn by the inexorable pull of gravity down to the sea ... or in this case, to Thassa.

I find that gratifying, to say the least. Gor is too big and amazing to be the sole domain of a select vew individuals, and has always been so. As I have often said in the past, MY Gor does not exist; it is Norman's vision, combined with our own hopes and dreams, which give life to our channels and online society. I only hope that one day the very concept of "my Gor" or "your Gor" evaporates, to be replaced by OUR Gor. Then, and only then, will I have come home. Until then, I will try to light a few lamps so we might all see better as we fumble through the fog toward the truth about what Gor is, what it is like, and what it signifies.

 

The reason for the influx of many of these rooms and sites is because we have lost the vision of Gor and what it was in the books. Let us try to reclaim it before it is too late.