Imagining a New Millennium

The new millennium is here, without cosmic catastrophe or computer collapse. Now what? Will the personal impact of the millennium last no longer than the average New Year’s resolution? Will our dreams of a better world, a more just society, a peaceful, livable earth, vaporize with the millennial hype? History is not encouraging. Utopian communities tend to collapse under the weight of human failings. Ideal republics from Plato to Communism have stumbled on human selfishness, greed and ambition. Heaven, as the traditional ideal world in Judaism and Christianity, seems to attract less of a following each year. After a […]