Arrr!!! Performing Piracy
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their lifetime has a bit of a pirate about them. It’s just what we’re willing to do
to get there” (Summers). Obviously, most of us are not willing to go to the same
lengths as pirates do to support ourselves.
That of course begs the question, that if people do not get financial gain
from talking or dressing up like pirates, why do they do it? Obviously, we get a
different kind of reward from embracing the image but not the role of piracy.
Some of what we get is of course the camivalesque release accompanied by not
obeying the rules and that feeling of freedom from constraints. It is fun. It also
provides recognition. 01’ Chumbucket said, “As the people in Albany, Oregon
mistakenly said, they mistook us for celebrities. I’m not going to pretend that
doesn’t feel good. I’m a pirate after all” (Baur