It's not a matter of opinion, it's a provable thing. Both Silver and Konstantin hold the media largely responsible for the way in which the celebration gained its own inexorable momentum last year. But this time, the media companies just sort of bought off on the intuitive factor to satisfy their advertisers, who wanted to have millennium sales. Konstantin is not, he wants to make clear, a curmudgeon. But it's not logically true.
Silver is equally blase about being considered a crank.
He says he'll celebrate this New Year's Eve just like any other. But he does wonder how loose people's definition of time can get.