Ronnie Hillbagger wrote:Hi Malky,
I'm failing to see your logic here. Surely each bothy closure has to be evaluated in each case? The 'rate of closure' is truly irrelevant to the fact that a bothy will now be closed due to bothy commercialisation by the Bothy Bible and arguably the MBA's role in supporting it. I say again, how many bothies must close due to the Bothy Bible before you consider it to be as big of a problem as any other reasons? 2, 4, 20..? I have, unfortunately, had to re-state the points as a few folk have deliberately tried to deflect the argument with various smokescreens from the OP, not to mention personal insults.
Please feel free to state why you think I'm wrong - or even start another thread - and I'll happily engage in an objective manner where you will not be denigrated by me at any rate. I'll also happily debate other bothy closures, but surely to god the An Cladach closure is a serious and new turn of events?
Surely if you care so much about bothies you should be trying to be more constructive. Maybe you dont mean to but it comes across that you have some sort of personal vendetta against the author and his book and you have incited others to attack the author on this forum with the thread you have created.
If you get so upset by a situation such as this would it not be better to let the MBA know who you are, and if you have a valid point and support in the organisation come to some agreement or compromise?
For anyone who was thinking about getting involved with bothies or helping out in the MBA, threads like this would certainly put them off which can't be good for bothies. Who would want to get involved with all that bickering and infighting? It's like falling out with your wife and then anonymously telling everyone on Facebook what a baddie she is.
Malkys point is certainly valid, the bothy may well have closed anyway, How many bothies were there when the book went to print and how many are there now?
Why is the parking and terrorising of locals only going to be a problem for 6 months from september and not the rest of the year?
Do you think the book will no longer be sold if the MBA does take its name off it or are you going to petition Amazon and other retailers to try and get it off the shelf?
I've never read the book and I am still unlikely to.
Ps do you know that sales of The Satanic Verses went through the roof when the Ayatollah made such a fuss about it?
All the best and chill out.