Letters
While I really enjoyed your article about Facebook, I was incensed to read a statement by Judith Younghusband when she said, “But now I realise it’s often the socially dysfunctional who don’t engage with social media because they have no friends!” I don’t do Facebook. It is my choice and I am certainly not dysfunctional as a result. If I want to contact my friends and family, I phone them or email and sometimes I have been known to use “snail mail” (write letters). Facebook is good for some people to connect but I am not interested and it is my choice not to engage in social media. One of your letters to the editor struck a chord with me. It was written by E. Rowe who migrated to Australia in the early ’50s and was one of three children who came out with her mother. We came to Australia from Malta in the late 1940s. I was one of three children who arrived with my mother and my father had arrived the year before. I agree wholeheartedly on her comments about some immigrants. My father had to do an “etiquette test” before he came here. I can imagine the outcry from civil rights people if that
Have your say. Send letters to Editor, Your Time Magazine, PO Box 6362, Maroochydore BC 4558 or email editor@yourtimemagazine.com.au were to happen today. At the time of my father leaving Malta in 1947 it was under British rule, so he could certainly speak English and was a policeman during World War II. Lastly, I would like to say how much I enjoyed another article called “I never even tasted it”. It was great reading. Also, there was such a lot of other information that was quite informative, especially “Make a wearing the hearing aid a habit”. It finally got my husband to wear his hearing aids that he had sitting on a shelf. Keep up the good work. I love reading your magazine. P.M. Eastman. My comments relate to the first two letters in the July edition of Your Time. I suggest both are a classic example of human failings that may well lead to the destruction, not just of our own species, but much of this planet as well. The first is obvious. The human race seems to be chronically unable to learn from the past. The classic example here is World War I, which was supposedly the “war to end all wars”, yet how many have there been since, arguably even more destructive and devastating? But more to the point, perhaps, our (human) history is littered with
civilizations that arose and then suffered an abrupt decline because they out-grew the ability of their environment to support their increasing numbers. That’s exactly as is happening now, except then it was a local problem, and humanity could regroup elsewhere. Now it is a global problem and there is no elsewhere. The second invokes the Bible and is a classic illustration of our (human) inability to adapt our belief systems to the changing situation. The Bible tells us, among other things, to “be fruitful and multiply”. Good advice for a relatively primitive tribal society in a sparsely populated world. Is it such good advice for an urban society in an already overpopulated world? In an already overpopulated world, a large percentage of the population is struggling to get sufficient food. It is, after all, our increasing population that drives our need for rampant development, which needs a growing economy to sustain it, which in turn, needs more people to sustain that. The merry-go-round continues faster and faster to ultimate self-destruction. Dmitri Perno Your Time is the best local seniors newspaper or magazine, and your July
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issue was no exception. I read it from cover to cover, and cut out the article by Kendall Morton for future reference since my wife is in the early stages of dementia. Since we are both in our mid 80s and can no longer walk far, I am always on the lookout for tours that look like they can accommodate our minor disabilities. Reading about Beverly Everson’s trip to China made me slightly envious, but the frank description of her travels made me realise that tour is not for us – too exhausting probably. But then I turn the page and read about the Queen Mary 2. We travelled on this ship from Brisbane to Hong Kong last year, and not only is everything in the article true but it suited our failing capacities ideally. The food, service, even the weather, were perfect. The classical music, daily lectures, and ambience were all to our taste. Complaints? As a retired engineer I was interested to see the engine room, but this was not permitted. And when it came to needing some medicine, there is no pharmacy! All those smart fashionable shops but nowhere to get prescription pills. So when you take such a cruise, make sure you take on board enough heart pills (or whatever) for the whole trip and longer. Ted Webber
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