4 - Friday, May 8, 1992 ~ North Shore News Start thinking about the Third 1 HAVE seen something that is exciting as a first kiss, or even learning to tic a bow tie. Ihave seen my first reference to the Third Millenium. Have you, readers? Maybe you ~ are way ahead of me. Though, as is well known, I am always at the very cutting edge of new experi- ence and fresh thought. Think of it — the Third Millenium. It's a shock. We pigeonhole de- cades with casual certainty: the 1950s (dull), the 1960s (radical), the 1970s (energy crisis), the 1980s (greed), and our own exciting 1990s (politically correct). We also try to wrap our little minds around whole centuries. The 18th century, for instance, is the Age of the Enlightenment. The 19th is the Industrial Age. This makes Grade 10 history easier, even though a lot of people weren't enlightened then or now, and quite a number of countries aren’t considered industrialized ei- ther. But now we have to face the challenge of preparing for, and planning, a whole millenium. Which is quite a lot of time. it must be, what, close to a thou- sand years? Something like that. | was never too good in arithinetic. Anyway, here we are at 1992, and some people must be noting that 2000 is coming up on the odometer — time for mankind to change the oil, I guess. But I first became aware of this momentous event the other day, when I saw a letter to the editor of a British paper written by a Labor party peer named Lord Judd judd. (Would I kid you?) His Lordship's, or Laborship’s, letter began on quite a practical plane, in praise of the defeated Labor party leader, Nei} Kinnock. It quickly became pretty heated stuff, pretty emotiona!, ex- travagantly extolling Kinnock as if he were dead, which politically he is, but this was genuine funeral- operation rhetoric, the kind that for lesser people ignores that the deceased had a bad habit of fur- tively picking his nose while pretending to listen to debates in the Commons, or that he had a loud, braying laugh when he told his own jokes, or that he embezzled millions. Soon Lord Judd was really whipping aloe:: the road, getting more and more earnest about Labor party principles and even about “‘the mercenary hacks and their masters in the sordid quarters of the media’? — his very words — and then be began to ask a series of rhetorical ques- tions: “Of course we must dem- onstrate our technocratic and management competence and our economic credibility, but for what? What will be the key issues of the Third Millenium? Where should we staud on ...’’ Hold it, hold it, back up. “What will be the key issues of the Third Millenium?” 1 imagine that even the most politically correct mind boggles. 1 can’t even predict whether the Trevor Lautens GARDEN OF BIASES kids would like the rhubarb pie special at Woodward's Park Royal for dessert tonight, or whether thev’d prefer the four-for-a- dollar doughnut bargain (dropped from three for 99 cents) — for the third time this week. And here is Lord Judd demand- ing that 1, or anyway Britons, and I have some English blood myself, determine the key issues of the next thousand years! [try to ration my use of ex- clamation marks, but I think we have to break out the box on that one! Think of it. A thousand years. Why, even 1, in magnificent good heaith and at the height of my powers, might not live another thousand years. Maybe if I gave up smoking and drinking. But it would be a pretty near thing. Who knows? Somewhere around 2700, a malcontent might say: ‘‘Know what, guys? I'm not so sure that the key issues of the Third Millenium that people wrote down in 1992 are, well, the key issues after all. “*{ mean, did they anticipate how hard it is to listen to the four millionth edition of Bil! Hughes’ Roving Mike on CKNW? “Couldn’t they have predicted that our kids will throw up if they see Mister Rogers put on that darned old cardigan of his one more time? “Also, they weren't too swift in identifying intergalactic pollution as a key issue of the Third Millenium. “*Maybe we should go back in our Time Machine and tell them how dumb they were. Also that the Canucks stifl haven't wona Stanley Cup.”’ And I guess he’d be right. (Or it. There won’t be any males or females in 2700, or anyway no one admitting to it.) 1 imagine that in a thousand years or so, we'll have been ex- posed as quite awful visionaries. Sorry, Lord Judd, old boy, we'll really have to leave it up to you and the keen-minded pro- phets of the British Labor party, most of whom couldn’t even predict the key issue that they’d be beaten in 1992 by John Major. I intend to try to see for myself how the Third Millenium turns out, and enjoy such entertain- ments as the West Van School Board stili debating whether to knock down Hillside school. LORE W. TOPHAM Is ; pleased to announce his association with KEITH M. WATSON § in general practice of law under the firm name | TOPHAM WATSON BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS #21-285 17th Street, West Vancouver phone 522-9564 Fax 922-9370 WV teahouse plan attracts 12 proposals TWELVE PROPOSALS for the development of a public teahouse at the old house at the foot of 19th Street in West Vancouver have been received thus far by West Vancouver District Council, Ald. Rod Day said Monday night. 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