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...wear your "Excuse me, I'm having one of those millenniums" T-shirt, sweatshirt and cap (the whole ensemble can be yours for only $53.85 on www.year2000products.com) while playing a special edition of Millennium Monopoly and drinking out of a millennium champagne flute ($24.95 each, but only $14.50 each if you buy in bulk...
...what's the point, exactly? Laying aside the possible technological implications of Y2K, what is so important about a new year, a new century, a new millennium? Our world is one constantly taking stock, measuring itself against arbitrary (and self-imposed) standards of achievement and progress, and time is an easy standard by which to measure...
...written in that crescendo of intensity. It asks in its most famous refrain how best to measure time--"in daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee?" Later in the musical, the reason for measuring is articulated: "You're living in America at the end of the millennium...where it's like the Twilight Zone...
...Computer difficulties aside, New Year's Eve 2000 will be just another day. As Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner points out, "If the universe is 15 billion years old, that's a million millennia. What's the big deal?" The danger in our societal emphasis on the coming millennium is that as we spend so much time measuring and acknowledging the passage of time, we begin to ignore what it is we're doing in that time...
...lose the context and the reason for our actions when we're constantly looking to evaluate the outcome and, by extension, we lose our appreciation for the actions of others. "Emphasis on something like the millennium deflects attention from the genuinely important matters that work themselves out over decades. An educated man or woman should forget the date and look on either side of it," says Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development John R. Stilgoe...