| What
this site used to do - namely, offer opinions of current events on a regular
basis - I now try to do at my re-launched home page, NBIERMA.COM.
In the meantime, catch up on 2PC's Essay
Archive.
Millennium
series
Sure, the millennium
is largely symbolic -- we are, after all, roughly 2005 years removed from
the birth of Christ -- but we've played by the skewed rules by centuries,
so why stop now? It's a useful time to zoom out on history. What is immediately
evident is how much everything has intensified exponentially over the last
century alone -- technology, population, egalitarianism. It all seems
to be leading up to something, doesn't it? (Hint: not necessarily) I explored
these themes in a turn-of-the-millennium series of essays:
• Y2K
scare: Apocalypse not
• Millennium
as anti-climax
• End
near? Maybe not
• Year
2000 packs historical punch
• The
more things change
This column has appeared in Chimes,
the
Paper, Spark Online, and
at WBBL.com. This site is not officially
affiliated with any of them, but is an independent venture of the author.
Why "2PC"? For a long time Sports Illustrated called its
back page essay the "Point After," while ESPN Radio still calls its one-minute
commentaries the "Extra Point." This site's title is an overt and shameful
extension of such appellations.
I covet, momentarily ignoring the Tenth Commandment, your
comments, questions, suggestions, and pontifications at
|
|
|
|
|
