Yesterday I January 1 2000

Many things occurred to me -

I was thinking that maybe it is a function of growing up that we see the bad things of life and that when we are young we have the energy to think that they don't matter or that we can change them!

I was also thinking that when I left school and went to Aston ; I had a world that was far different than I see now. I never imagined that I would see a time when apartheid was not present and when Mandela was free. Although I imagined that I would see a more unified Europe and that the Berlin Wall would no longer exist, I also did not expect to see the end of Communism in the form of the Soviet Union.

It is a very eerie feeling to know that the space station Mir was sent up by the USSR and that the missiles in the Ukraine are now the property of that state and are no longer controlled from Moscow!

And too ...... That when I left the UK for Africa I imagined that we would have access to a main frame computer through a terminal but that the big advance would be that we would not have to book 'time' on the mainframe.

So much has happened in my short adulthood. So much that is hopeful and new and yet I take it for granted. There has been a price. As organizations get more sophisticated, and systems more complicated, it becomes increasingly harder to find accountability and responsibility. The organization - the 'matrix' - becomes the arbiter, even though it is made up of persons rather than arithmetic digital functions. So the person gives over their obligation to choose in favor of a rule that is imposed and is supposed to be absolute. Individuality is eroded alongside individual integrity.

We are no longer 'whole' - we have pinpricks of procedure piercing our person. These pinpricks bring us relief from decision-making at the price of integrity and respect. We empower the 'matrix' -the system!

Gradually, we are weighed down by rules and procedures. Do we then lose hope? And yet - individuals still shine, things do happen, and every day there may be small joys and victories.

But has my generation - have I - lost the desire or ability to recognize them.

SEATTLE the City marked by the non-event!

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WARNING — — — — or Chicks with Dicks! And sundry other interesting creatures - 

I am always being asked why the background to my pages has a certain dialog.

- And I answer by asking if they have any thoughts on the words that seem to trouble them.

.... and then, they are troubled that I have a link that offends them. This is VERY interesting to me because the link is prefaced by a big warning !!!

So they follow the link - follow the words of warning on the page that the link goes to ...... click ENTER,  and end up where ' chicks have dicks' ........                                        And find themselves being offended, disturbed, and not understanding where moggi stands.

The background to these pages contain words, and only words.  There are no exhortations to follow them, there is not subliminal message .  Only words to think about, to question and to speculate on.  If you only stop and think to yourself - then they have done their job.

But remember, and read, ALL the phrases:

Don't eat fear soup .........    existential cats .....      being objectified ....    chicks with dicks .......    vulnerability not exposure ......   The Wisdom of existential cats .....    

ALL the words ------  you never know, you might find something interesting within your self - I know I do!