On December 31st, 2000, the people of this planet will step to the edge of a new century and gaze out upon an uncertain future. The next millennium is a vast soup of technological, political and spiritual potential that only touches most of us and gives us pause because it is a milestone; a holiday. It's a day off; an excuse to party. We are inexplicably proud because the arbitrary date of our birth allowed us to 'survive' the 20th century...turn around and take a Poloroid of the past. Previous centuries of recorded time were marked by human hysteria and mass psychological phenomena that peaked as the century ended. This dying Second Millennium passed with very little of that. Coporate Anxiety Spikes concerning the 'Y2K' bug and a giddy stock market, high on the tech offerings that have mostly fueled this raging-bull trading rampage, dominated the headlines: Day Trader's hell, minor panic, then the bitching about how much we spent on Y2K. Despite the lack of aberrant human behavior at the turn of the last century, such accounts pale beside the day-to-day outrages perpetrated by the civilian population upon itself since World War II. We are too many, going too fast with too little time to reflect upon why we are here or where we are going. Perhaps we should use this year 2000, the eve of the true millennium to come, to stop — climb out of our acquisition-based lifestyles — and ponder just what it is we rush toward. Ahead on the highway of humankind's future, just beyond the curve of the new millenium, there is something in the road.
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