In community after community all around the planet we demonstrated an incredible capacity to self-organize. We moved into relationships with new and old partners and thought about how we might support each other. Hopefully, we've learned to laugh, and lightly hold the perils of self-organizing in anticipation of events that have not yet occurred. In systems theory, and in cellular organization, self-organizing occurs in the moment, not in the anticipation of the moment. Perhaps one of the most important reminders from Y2K is that we increasingly don't know how to measure anything of importance.
Measurement requires a known standard and base.
We're in a period of creation of new standards and bases. We got through Y2K, so far. AND, many of our underlying concerns about the directions of industrial growth society remain the same. We need to continue our work to keep things from getting worse, to develop effective alternatives for people, and to evolve a whole shift in consciousness. The world seems a bit more, well, global.