In the middle of the Internet Era, I am looking back on the Flint Age, when everyone and everything was evident to everyone. Father and mother was one and the only one. The country we served was one and the only one just like the Sun is.
In the Flint Age, when my father of stout build made a fire by striking a flint, my mother did her utmost to preserve it. When she "killed," of all things, the seed of fire, she was taken to task by my fearful Grandma, who might have considered the "sin" of extinguishing worthy of being expelled from the nest we call family.
Today everything is not crystal clear. Everything is fuzzy and uncertain. It is just like we are going through foggy tunnels. The Sun is still one and only one, but the country, which should have been served with patriotism and allegiance, is not only one anymore. Even father and mother is not one and only one no longer.
A huge number of Korean people live in "two-house families," the one house in Seoul or some other metropolis and the other house in Los Angeles, New York or Washington, D.C. As a natural result, they usually hold dual citizenships, that is, parents are Korean and their offspring is American. In the same context, patriotism and allegiance might be torn between the two countries.
Children of the Internet Era have come to acquire a wisdom to survive. Power between the husband and the wife turns out to be a leverage which should tilt the scale of human existence. The children are used to side with the powerful parent. A comedian-turned woman newscaster, who had turned her ex-husband out from her luxury apartment, once said to the press, "I am very proud of my daughters, who promised me to "make new father" for me."
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