The first decade of the millenium will end in one year and one month. On Nov 28, 3:51 am, fran the man <[email protected]> wrote: > Towards the end of the year, reviews start to appear about the the > year gone by, what had happened, and its significance. > > In a month's time, the first decade of the new millenium comes to an > end: Here's an interesting analysis of some of the trends which the > decade saw. It has, given its source, a bit of Irish emphasis, but I > find the major lines of thought interesting. The following paragraph > sums it up well: > > " ... For those of us who have to live with the pain of the fall that > followed all this delusional pride, it is little consolation that > future historians will probably regard it as a salutary shock. They > will say that the illusion of American hyper-power was in fact > dangerous and destabilising, that the vast power of an uncontrollable > global financial system was a threat to democracy and to real > economies, that the oil was running out, that endless consumption was > going to destroy the world and that the emergence of a multi-polar > global system was a good thing. They will see the Noughties as a > period of messy transitions in which clapped-out assumptions kicked > and screamed while the world dragged itself agonisingly towards a more > sustainable future..." > > http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1128/1224259593278.html > > Francis
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