August 30, 1996

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:


Ernst has asked for some private time to take care of a family matter; I have no way of reaching him to double-check my thoughts and make sure my hot pen doesn't get him in trouble.

Therefore, this column does not have a theme; it's just a bit of a news update, along with some items that might make you pause, guess and ponder.

The news across the land is good, bad and ugly. The good up-front:

"Forget international connectivity - most governments are trying to erect a checkpoint at every virtual border. I have this horrible fear that in 2005 or so world leaders are going to say something like:

"We had to destroy the global village in order to save it."

Sorry, folks, that this column is such a mishmash of unconnected items, but when Ernst is not available to check my work against his frame of reference of what is good or not-so-good to say, I feel like a cat without whiskers.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

What makes one heroic?
- To confront simultaneously one's greatest sorrow and one's greatest hope.
What do you believe in?
- I believe that the weight of all things must be determined anew.
What does your conscience tell you?
- You must become who you are.
Where is your greatest danger?
- In pity.
What do you love in others?
- My hopes.
Whom do you call bad?
- He who always desires to make one ashamed.
What is for you the humane thing?
- To spare someone shame.
What is the seal of freedom attained?
- No longer to be ashamed of oneself.

(Friedrich Nietzsche in "The Joyful Wisdom.")



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