ra hor ang in Ge ie a Sarr The sin Eleanor vintage years THERE’S A chap who turns up on BCTV some evenings who calls himself Johnny Cyberseed, an obvious piay on the young guy who did his missionary work with a bas- ket of apple-cores. This chap’s contribution to the greening of our world is to pull out of hiy basket some of the more fasci- nating things that people are doing with computers these days. The other night he said “haif the technol- ogy we'll be using in the "90s hasn't | been invented yet." It put me in a cold sweat. A statement like that is bound to ; give us old-timers pause, despite the pride I feel in the way you and I _ have hiandled all these incredibie ~ .” changes in our lifestyle. They are nothing close to what we could ever : . have imagined when we were chil- dren. We grew up in simpler times, when you did it in your head, using a scratch-pad and thumbing a dictio- nary. The “brains” among us got as far as fogarithms‘and mumbled - about Einstein's Theory, but most of “us drought a fountain-pen was pretty ~ far-cut. ‘As well, the whole structure of -our young lives was based on pat- tems laid down well before our time. _» We were not given the latitude to try - to test those patterns: There were ‘well-established lines drawn socially as well/as interpersonally and finan- oo -cially, and those lines were not easi- ‘ly breached. Dari few of us even tried. From the horseless carriage _ through the Wright brothers’ wild - ..,. &xperiments to incredible visits to - “the moon, we've more or less kept ‘our poise, Gawped a bit, maybe, said “landsakes” and ‘“‘what’s next” but * learned to take it in stride. It scares us now, though, in that none of these tremeridous human achievements appears to have con- - tributed in any way to our improve- yt Veg ge I 6 BAGELS! | Authentic Montreal Bagels } 105 East 42th St. N. Van? “Across from, Fiesta Mexicana 2 86-3578 4 ment as human beings, fo talking spiritually now, Certainly we see the advantage to our lives in the conquest of diseases, old and new, though a recently reported reappearance of tuberculo- sis is almost unbelievable, We also have bettered every layman's knowl- edge of personality disorders and how proper nutrition can improve and extend our lives, “Going to the store” has been revolutionized. We don't always fol- _low the rules, mind, but at least we know something about how we shouid. But the human factor, what's going on in the lives of children and women and men, too, is contrary to what we were expecting in the brave new world, iv’s a mess. We've just come through two interminable judi- cial examinations of rape und mur- der, alot of it piped right into our liv- ing-rooms, either via the iniquitous TV or the family newspaper, and it has damaged every one of us. We are all soiled to some degree, even though many of us try to avoid cither medium. The situation in that basement, girls in the first of their puberty being brutalized, that man and woman reeking of the blood trom vicious blows. We are also appalled at the shape of retribution imposed in both cases, The standards we thought we'd achieved, deepening and broadening our. learning about other people, shedding the prejudices our parents had courted, refining our knowledge of our own inner workings, and here we were all of us back in the jungle of violence, and we feel that ail our vaunted measures for improving the quality of. what's going on in the world are currently in the garbage. . If that kind of stuff can happen, ~ we've hardly made a dent. Fairly often nowadays I say: “I’m glad I’m ‘as old as I am”, because we've obvi- ously had the best of it. In the years I've got left, 1 feel I shall revert more to those simpler times when we read books and tend- _ ed bits of garden and watched the sun set behind the trees and cher- - ished old friends. I don’t understand what's going on, with 11 and 12-year-old children ‘attacking and/or robbing elderly peo- ple, stealing automobiles, burning houses. | especially don’t under-, stand the antagonism which is at the Pharmacisr CAPSULE COMMENTS IF you are having laboratory tests. ! 4 done, be sure to inform the doctor and lab staffall the drugs, including vitamins and minerals, you have been taking. Certain test results can be affected by certain medicinal products. Educating people in the proper use of medication can save money ‘to our healthcare system, Our phar- macists enjoy this. educational aspect of our job, We invite vou te Fury gue style of pharmacy. DAVIES PHARMACY (401 St. Georges 985-877 1 | W. 16th St. 987-4411 ler th bottom of it. 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