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...prophet could anticipate what actually did happen. So here we are, an incredible, terrible, marvelous century later, nearing our own fin de siecle -- and fin de millennium...
...have our indomitable optimists. An outfit called the Millennium Society has lined up the QE2 to transport 3,000 people, all presumably upbeat, to a huge celebration at the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The authors of Megatrends 2000 look to "a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reform and great cultural rebirth...
...long time we Americans considered our nation itself as the fulfillment of a sort of millennium, a divinely ordained new order, God's own attempt to start over. The notion is far from dead, and it doesn't show up merely in Fourth of July patriotism. There is, for instance, the Panglossy suggestion from a serious academic that, at least in theory, we have devised so perfect a system that we have reached the end of history...
...daily lives, we believe in a great many small secular millenniums; one of them is success. Romance is a kind of millennium too, and we cling to it with amazing fidelity, despite sexual freedom and divorce -- the triumph, as Dr. Johnson said about second marriages, of hope over experience...
...fact, the Al Franken Decade had to be the single greatest attempt to break the tyranny of history and make sure that we don't get our personal significance squashed into the crude oil to be sold in some later millennium for $1.18 a gallon...