Re: SOCIETY: The Quiet Revolution

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 01:03:44 -0500


The Low Willow wrote:
>
> Brrr. You know, I've seen rather little millenial fervor, all things
> considered. Stuff in the Weekly World News, the TV show Max More and
> Greg Stock were in, but not much else. Perhaps I've been out of it.
> But if I'm right: guys, I *like* it this way. _Don't_ stir things up.
> If people start going gaga over the year 2000 we'd get lost in the
> storm; 3 years of heavy duty extropian advertising couldn't compete with
> thousands of years of superstition -- I won't drag formal religion into
> this, it doesn't deserve it. So far it looks like we might tiptoe past
> the millenium, compared to what went off in 1000 AD or even 1900.
> Spiffy. Shhh.
>
Yeah, I would suggest that you wait at least 5 or 10 years after the
mellenium before getting hot on PR. Let enough time to pass to show
everyone that the religious mellenial fever was utter bunk. Then again,
since Christ was supposedly strung up around age 35, technically the
real mellenium should happen around 2035..... uh gee Eliezer, we need to
do some recalculating.....
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