Bright confetti tops a mound of smooth gray pebbles against a pale gray background.

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Jose Chung

I humbly add my own prophecy of what the dawn of the new millennium shall bring forth: one thousand years of the same old crap.

— Millennium • 1996

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Grand predictions get punctured by dry cynicism. Instead of transformation or renewal, the new millennium is forecast to bring more of the exact same tedium that came before. It's a wry rejection of hopeful hype, insisting that nothing fundamental actually changes with the calendar.

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