As people celebrated the New Year last month, there was a strange feeling in the air that made the celebration a tad bittersweet. The feeling was of ambivalence, confusion and, yes, fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of the future.
Nothing unites people better than fear.
Maybe that is why stories involving the alleged impending crisis thanks to the year 2000 have graced the covers of diverse alternative news sources ranging from Patriot magazine The Free American to Progressive political primer The Los Angeles Free Press . Last month, militia and patriot hero Bill Cooper's Harvest Trust Organization warned of an attempt to declare martial law over the supposed Y2Khaos that is developing, sometime between the middle of 1999 to the first quarter of 2000. Meanwhile, the Biotic Baking Brigade, a group of leftist subversives who use pies as their weapon, declared their next major target to be the computer and chip manufacturers who have created the impending crisis by their negligence. Perhaps now would be a good time to take a step back and describe precisely what the Y2K bug is in the first place. The idea was that by the time the year 2000 rolled around, this little problem would be solved.