Measurement and Imperialism in the ‘New Millennium’

millennium, n. Period of a thousand years, esp. that of Christ's reign on person on earth (Rev. xx.1–5); (fig.) period of good government, great happiness & prosperity. Hence ∼AL a. [f. L mille thousand + annus year, on anal. Of biennium two years' space] (Oxford Dictionary 1964, p. 768). The Millennium is not a foreign fad. It is a cultural metaphor — admittedly an arbitrary one (Jull 1998, p. 20). (I)mperialism, as we shall see, lingers where it has always been, in a kind of general cultural sphere as well as in specific political, ideological, economic, and social practices (Said 1994, p. 4).