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The Old
Monkey's Menu (drops down from above) |
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While Growing Up:
Young monkeys are clearly
different creatures from their more mature counterparts
(Eeeek! Eeeek!). In many ways they are pristine
initially, yet they learn to swing through the canopy with
ease, and acquire both good and evil from their mentors and
the canopy itself. To fall out of the tree may come at
any time, yet most never do!! Some never find the
canopy, and never learn to swing. Those who learn to
swing go on to greater monkey business. |
| Swinging Free:
An essential ingredient of monkey life is
filling (killing) time. Pastimes and organized sports
are super time fillers with few or many rules. Break
the rules, and you may be thrown out of the canopy.
Hunting, traveling, and many other forms of monkey business
are included here.
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Navy Monkeys:
Learning to swing through the Navy's canopy is a
fascinating and awesome first career. In some respects
it was McHale's Navy, yet in others it was magnificent.
It led to one of the most difficult early decisions in a
great swing through the canopy. |
| Adult
Behavior: How adult monkeys behave in the
canopy varies from monkey to monkey. Making sense of
this great variability falls into three mushy, but separate
monkey classifications: Individual and small group
(adult) monkey behavior, behavior in monkey organizations,
and monkey behavior which comes off the tracks. Adult
monkey behavior is generally within normal limits,
defined from a broad perspective. |
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In Organizations:
This old monkey does
not know exactly why monkey behavior in organizations
becomes perverted, but it often does. Scientific monkeys have developed a
substantial understanding of relationships throughout the
canopy, yet other monkeys with power and influence can
subvert what rational monkeys have learned. Monkey
knowledge is incomplete, but better than nothing, -
sometimes!! |
| Off the Tracks:
On
occasion one's experience in the canopy is so startling that
it simply must be shared. When monkey behavior comes
off the tracks it both fascinates and reveals how
much, yet how
little monkeys know. Within each monkey is a
perceptual field which defines, explains, and drives each
monkey every moment. Coming off the tracks
makes sense only to other monkeys looking in from the
outside. Welcome to one monkey's phenomenology, a
perceptual view of reality, a monkey's reality show. Eeeek! Eeeek!
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Tough NEC: When the above categories don't
fit, the old monkey still
needs a place to dump the leftovers. This is that place
where the choice is simply too tough to classify, or NEC
(not elsewhere classified). |
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