It soon becomes clear that everybody's pretending for tonight that they're still in the pre-crash fantasy years, dancing in the shadow of last year's dreaded Y2K, no safely history, but according to this consensual delusion not quite upon them yet, with all here remaining freeze-framed back at the Cinderella moment of midnight of the millennium when in the next nanosecond the world's computers will fail to increment the year correctly and bring down the Apocalypse. What passes for nostalgia in a time of widespread Attention Deficit Disorder.
In the narrative, there is a stark illusion as people engage in a facade that echoes a time before the financial crash. They immerse themselves in a dance of denial, clinging to the idealism of the millennium's turning point, enchanted by a moment that feels both timeless and precarious. The dread surrounding the Y2K scare looms, yet they choose to ignore the impending reality. This collective act of nostalgia highlights a...
