A Lighter's Closure on the 20th Century
A short while ago, Barbara T. wrote about quite a few of bad things happened
recently in America that triggered both Dennis Su and Fat Chicken to respond. They think the country is not that bad at all, although there are
rooms for improvement. My sentiments are that some of the old people and some of the very young people are the only bad apples among us. The
majority of the people here are O.K. One case in point came from my daughter. She forwarded me an e-mail on soy sauce made by Lee Kam Kee and
some mainland China brands contain cancer related chemicals. She told me it
is for me to read only and not for others. I thought most of us use soy sauce and /or oyster sauce, and forwarded to S.S. and Tony. S.S. has the
foresight of not to damage Lee Kam Kee's name any further since quite some
people saw that U.K. report already. He and Tony, therefore, did not load
that e-mail into the Lighters' web-site. I think this incident points out
that the younger generation are less emotional and more rational in day-to-day matters. Although the killings were done by middle school and
high school students. These maladjusted kids are younger than most of the
Lighters' children. My son is still in high school, a junior, but he has not shown any
traits akin to the two at Columbine in Colorado. Last night I saw on TV a young woman climbed down from a 600 year old redwood
tree in Oregon after living in it for two long years to save it and some nearby land
from Pacific Lumbers. As for the name-calling of some presidential hopefuls, I sometimes get close to that. Peter Tong once pointed out that I
always pick on Cookie Roberts and Sam Donaldson and call the pair third-rate
newscasters. I admit the act is not nice, but it is a lot milder than the
ones Barbara T. wrote about. From these small observations of my children
and other young people, I am sure the 21st century will be at least as
livable as the 20th century. We don't need to move from America to Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa yet. The latter group is the often
quoted ideal places to move to by the whites that don't like the blacks in
the eighties. Remember, there is a Chinese saying that says: The day you are still a monk, you go strike the bell. Does this message mean not to
seek changes? At our age, one wishes no surprises. The end of a century and the beginning of the next will be as uneventful as any other new
year
Although most of us will not see the Y2.1K, and what not, but do we really
care?
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