Jimmy Carter then faced a Iran hostage crisis and could not dispatch a group of special forces to rescue the hostages. People wonder where were Sean Connery, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzeneger, Sylvester Stallone when Western allies needed them. One of them surely would have done the job and two of them would have provided ample insurance. None of them showed up on TV and that sank American hearts into a new low, after World War II. It was said, the greatest achievement by Ronald Reagan was that he made American felt good again, about being American. He used a Star War hoax/prank/bluff to drag down the awkward USSR Empire economically, and that was the decisive strike of the Cold War (不战而曲人之兵,上之上者也).

Then Japanese was the nemesis to US with its auto industry afterwards, but soon another hoax by Bill Clinton's generation using dot com and Y2K dismissed the threat handily. George W. Bush and his administration looked for another war to build its own legacy, or at least expand the military and oil industry for the family businesses of the newly elected president and the vice president. After 9/11, they found a war in Afghanistan with some reasoning and support from people around the world, but found another one mysteriously in Iraq.

Age of information arrived with 0 and 1, true and false, very binary and quantum.

Indian people in Asia discovered that English in education and conversation is an advantage in the information age, with most computer programming languages having one thing or another to do with English words. Technology and business related documentations are better prepared in English if one wanted more people to read and understand.

Over in China, after class struggle was no longer important to Chinese, communist party decided to focus on economic development 战略转移. The policy shift was a great success with at least more people speaking English and reading, listening about what was happening outside of the China proper. With even a controlled population growth, the country had become increasingly small and technically backward for its large populations 改革开放 without joining in the globalization. Chinese were shocked to find out the level of wealth and high standard of living, many other nations enjoyed; and as a part of human nature, many Chinese people wanted to quickly get to the same place where their neighbors were economically and psychologically. 全盘西化 or "copying the West" experiments had successes and failures, with a few steps forward and a few steps back, such as 反对自由化 / 南巡考察. But the overall movement, even though difficult to track, was moving forward in general. With a group of people got rich first, 先富起来 good and evil of other cultures rushed in. It was easy to gauge how much more people had gotten richer, but it was difficult to gauge how much dignity people have lost 笑贫不笑娼 in the process as China progressed. With the arrival of Chinese style social-capitalism, and Chinese style democracy, 中国特色的(资本/社会)主义和中国特色的民主, age of information also arrived in China with 0 and 1, true and false, which brought back the good'o times in China when there were just 阴 and 阳.

Nobody worships money, no one with normal intelligence is kneeling down in front of a coin, or a paper note. But most people worship power behind 0 and 1. History and information lies to people, because people often lies to history and information. The jobs of scientists, artists, philosophers, politicians are the same, that is to mesmerize people 使人走火入魔. The world is a matter of perception, as a proof of that, about 90% of the UFO sightings are mostly in United States. Some said that Renaissance was never finished, and some others said that the French revolution was never finished. There is nothing new under the sun, it is all 0 and 1, 阴 and 阳, True and False, the ultimate quantum elements that made the universe, and it is turtles all the way down.

One morning when jade woke up from her bed, she saw her husband already up, finished shaving and was putting on a shirt as if he was going out for an interview. She was a bit startled because her husband had been lazy lately and she had not heard of any pending interviews recently. Usually David would have told him about such things.

"You made it sounded like an interview with the vampires"

Jade: "I have a theory. Recruiters like to call you because you are a part of the equation to their potential pay checks. Employers do not like to call you because you are part of the equation to their payment checks. If you got an interview with an employer, that's time well spent. If you got an interview with recruiters, that unfortunately, is the time wasted. You are just helping a recruiter doing his or her job, while you still can not get a job. Recruiting business is tough. Definitely tougher than 2000".

"Hm, recruiters, asking me to be a programmer again, no, with fancy names such as "developer", "software engineers" or "managers", etc. This really is like 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志哉".

"I always thought 鸿鹄 is for someone who is preparing to run for the President. Are you that ambitious now? It is certainly out of your character". Jade puzzled.

"Well, last time I checked 鸿鹄 is translated into English as: wild goose. Imagine how many wild geese have there been in the history of mankind? The problem is that many of the wild geese are not humble, and are not thankful to God and are not thankful for what they got. Look at all the so-called successful people we have seen around us or have the fancy title of 'leaders', 'CEO', 'professors', 'commanders', 'chairmen', 'presidents', etc. I think it's OK to be aspired to be a wild goose, but I just resent to be a sparrow 燕雀, that does not eliminate my desire to be a humble 鸿鹄. I am going to implement a reform in my company. I am going to print the title 'President' in the business card of every employee in my company."

Jade thought for a moment and asked: "how do you come up with that and what had changed for you this morning".