What's wrong with Chinese fortune cookies these days?

My fellow author friend, Gonzalo Barr, writes to me:


"...Chinese fortune cookies have become less substantive over the years.When I was a child, you could expect to read a proper fortune, like, "Your future is bright." Then fortune cookies leaned toward the metaphorical, like -- After winter comes spring. Well, that's nice, but what does that have to do with me? But now, now -- fortune cookies are way past enigmatic. They border on the tautological. I'm still waiting for the one that reads -- ...