Still, I've been healthy up to now for which I'm grateful. Tony ate spaghetti, I tried the peppered chicken special. From Aberdeen, we rode back to the Central region of Hong Kong Island and found the tram to Victoria's Peak, the famous mountaintop overlook. I've been saddened, though not terribly surprised I suppose, to see Hong Kong dealing with many of the same human tendencies that we do in the West. A walk down the main streets of Hong Kong provides one with an opportunity on most every city block to buy jewelry, electronics, cuff links that cost more than my car, digital cameras by the dozens, diamond watches.
Shopping centers are everywhere.
Not that these are in and of themselves bad or evil, but the sheer mass and availability of these things tells me we're spending a good deal of money on a great many gadgets. Beyond this opulence, such a stroll bombards one with thousands of sex-crazed images. Seen several signs for topless bars. I can't help but wonder how this might subtly influence the thousands of Asian men and women a day who walk by, influence the way they view themselves or those around them. True, the point is the department store itself and the clothes therein, but to make one's identity even remotely grounded in these is destructive.