Is that the time?

Has it really been nearly two weeks since my last post? Feels like only a couple of days. Time is flying past like never before. Work is as busy as I could ever want, an almost perfect mix of mindless admin, complex co-ordination and strategic problem solving - which is good for a month or two to pass the time, but I haven't stepped out of the building to take lunch for the last couple of weeks unless it's for a meeting - a very unsustainable lifestyle. But it's doing the job for the moment as the finishing line races ever closer.

May everyone put 30 June and 1 July into the their calendars as the biggest nights that London has ever seen. If I don't get arrested and cause British parliament to introduce legislation to prevent whatever I do from happening again then I don't think it will have been a fitting end to the London phase of this journey. Funnily enough, it doesn't feel like a journey anymore - London has to some extent become home - only in its familiarity though - I know London better than most English people, which is a strange thought, but then again, most Poms probably know Bondi, or Sydney in general better than me.

So I'm taking a quick break from work at the moment to try and think about anything new that has happened recently - apart from the BIRTH OF MY NEPHEW. Had the fantastic experience of waiting out the birth at the hospital with my brother, and see the little bugger at about 20 minutes of age. Popped round on the weekend to see him again and had a hold this time - babies are like little animals - which I guess is the appeal of children in general - totally undamaged by the molding forces of society. You could also say that they have no sense of morality either. But I would argue that morality is a human instinct and it can only be brought to the fore through a thorough and wide ranging education. Ignorance and dogma are the enemies of morality, which is why we should never teach children what is right and wrong, but what the consequences of their actions lead to and let their moral instincts guide them. Because really, if humans don't have instinctual morality then we have always been and never will be any different to starving dogs fighting for scraps of food, which doesn't bother me, but the inflated ego of mankind needs to feel like we aren't merely another species of parasite. And conversely, man is so intimidated by his dominance over his destiny lacking in mental capacity to comprehend the infinite pattern of possibility, that he has invented a turbo-charged tooth-fairy aka. god, to try and beat his ego back into submission - not such a bad thing if it was designed to achieve solely such an end rather than to control the masses. But the institutionalisation of the benevolent bogey man has resulted in something far worse than a battered human ego, but a battered human consciousness and ability to educate itself and access the glory of our instinctual morality, aka our humanity, to achieve happiness and harmony on a global scale.

Or so I will explain to young Oliver Hirst asap.