Indeed, a subject so timeless and unpredictable has a cozy little spot for every personality type. And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. Coping with this vast known quantity that is the year 2000 is like religion.
People believe what they want.
The result is that people are the greatest variable going. And then there's the issue of how other people will react to those reactions. And so on. County Mental Health tells us, for example, that most of the people experiencing extreme anxiety about Y2K are the type who experience extreme anxiety anyway. If it wasn't Y2K, it would be something else.