A common theme in this splendid e-community of kilties is tolerance and joy in dressing a bit outside the "standard" of society's vast, lowing, conformal, oft-judgemental hordes.

Which stimulated a "hmm" quasi-deep thought; one can attend Renaissance/Fantasy faires, Sci-Fi conventions, Steampunk gatherings and Historical Reenactments of all eras...

...and experience a common vibe among those present.

Not only tolerance of demonstrably eccentric dress and behaviour, but downright joy in the diversity, creativity, skill, craft, faith-to-genre, originality...

...but ultra-rarely, criticism, intolerance, ill-judgement.

Are Trekkies, Steampunkers, Rennies, Reenactors, perhaps a few giant strides ahead of the population at large, in "spiritual maturity"?