That had been the year author George Orwell pegged in his 1949 book to depict a world in which the government turned everything around on its citizens. The society the author portrayed was restricted and repressed and lost. Well, the real 1984 came and went, and I remember writing with optimistic good humor that we had dodged the bullet, gotten our act together and avoided its dire consequences. It was only years later that I saw many of Orwell's predictions had played out with far greater subtlety than I had expected. It's probably that way with our millennium change.
Great forces are at work.
The tectonic plates of modern life are slowly but most assuredly shifting, and we're too focused on tomorrow to notice. We take down the old calendars tonight and congratulate ourselves on another successful passage. We read the year-end packages and notice a lot of famous people died in 2000. We never do. The Augusta Chronicle .