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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (8900)	10/11/1999 7:18:00 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Off and on I've tried unsuccessfully to make a point about the differences in people's reactions to Y2K news being more a function of who they are than the actual content of the news. This morning I ran across the same point made more effectively in a February article in the NY Daily News. FWIW. Karen nydailynews.com >>>"Y2K is like a mirror," explains Tim Wilson, publisher of Y2K News magazine and one of the Web sites (y2knews.com) that has become a perennial source of millennial information. "People take this and apply it to their original belief set. If they're the kind of person who wants to bring back the gold standard, they see this as the way the currency will fall. The new world order group thinks there's some kind of worldwide conspiracy to take over the world with a multi-nationalist something or other, and the real heavy religious groups feel the coming of Christ is imminent." Dr. Robert Michels has another take on why some fear the new millennium while others see it as just another new year. "Some see the world as a place that will fill their needs and care for them. They're optimistic and trusting," explains Michels, a professor of medicine and psychiatry at Cornell University Hospital and Medical College. "Others see the place where their basic needs will be frustrated, and not be met. They're fearful and distrustful. These are attitudes that begin early and are shaped by the family ? and persist through life." <><>< >