PPT Slide
Notes:
[Now the music starts involving nonsense words, stolen from all kinds of languages including Latin. Very global.]
Narration: We at Y2K Industries believe that caution is warranted at this critical juncture of history.
* For one thing, the periods around millenium years, and around century years as well, are times of change. Change is risk. For the net result of this period to be acceptable requires proper guidance.
* Power today rests mostly in the systems that we have worked so hard to establish, and that could be described collectively as unrestrained, free-market capitalism. With proper guidance, any change is likely to be towards freer, even less restrained capitalism. Without proper guidance, anything whatsoever could happen.
* Power today is exercised mostly by corporations and those who control them. Other ideologies are not allowed to interfere with commerce. For this to remain as stable as it is requires proper guidance.
* Thanks to untiring and unstinting decades of public relations, most resentment and anger is focussed not on corporations and free-market capitalism, but on dramatically unpleasant rulers like Saddam Hussein. This seems to be a fact on the ground, but it could change without proper guidance.
* Resentment of corporations is of course unlikely to surface in the near future… but if it did, it would likely erupt not only among the traditional “downtrodden,” but among the insider “privileged” as well—corporate employees, contractors and even managers. Proper guidance must focus on everyone.