Joyce Carol Oates on The Fallacy of the Round Number
"An anthropologist from another planet might wonder at our American obsession with a magic numeral, 2000, as the "end" of something (precisely what?) and the "beginning" of something else. Assuming that angels (in which, according to opinion polls, most Americans believe) will rescue us from a computer apocalypse, why all the concern?"
I had occasion to watch TV
for the first time in about 18 months last night. I was aware of all the Dotcom Koolaid people are being fed, but it still came as a bit of shock. Meanwhile, I've decided to build a media empire devoted to showing all those scenes they leave out of TV shows. I'll be like the CSPAN meets Andy Warhol of television dramas.