Because sometimes, I'm just in the mood, and because I can, I now digress to completely wierd bullshit and babbling:
How'd we wind up with such a messed up abstract notion as time being such a huge factor in our lives?
We've all experienced moments in our lives when time was simply not moving at the same percieved intervals as another instance. Sometimes an hour feels like forever, and you can't wait for it to end, and sometimes it just whips by, and you wish you hadn't missed it.
I'm not saying this isn't a completely acceptable and, occasionally magical phenomenon, I just thinks it's fairly remarkable that something that relative (without even getting into anything that big-brained, wild-haired people may have had to say about it) measures so much of our lives.
Don't you think that sometimes, you've put in the equivalent of 15 hours into an 8 hour work period, or vice versa in some other number combination? It occasionally seems hard to believe that we even measure how much someone is getting paid not by how much work they do or how good a job they do, but simply for how many individual measured minutes they are in the location of employment. Maybe if yould measure the actual level of stress and labor being put upon the person, you could pay them based on that, or ask them to work until they reach a reasonably determined level.
Obvisouly, it's not only in relation to employment, we base so much legal and social judgement and opinion on people's age, a calculation based on units of time measured since birth. We base so much in our lives on the amount of time spent on this or that, we teach ourselves tactics and invent gadgets to help us be more aware of it, we've developed several different manufacturing and fashion industries just on devices to keep track of it, all based on the concept that it is ineffable, constant, and endlessly measurable.
But I think we could all say that we know what it's like to feel that one measurement of time moved slower than another. Seems to me that other force, the one that's causing something so seemingly reliable to fluctuate that strangely and unpredicably, That's something worth trying to measure and understand.
-It just occurs to me that if the effects of emotion and attitude and environment are so powerful that they can melt and distort a system so logically and theoretically structed as time itself, maybe we're measuring with the wrong ruler.
Dave
How'd we wind up with such a messed up abstract notion as time being such a huge factor in our lives?
We've all experienced moments in our lives when time was simply not moving at the same percieved intervals as another instance. Sometimes an hour feels like forever, and you can't wait for it to end, and sometimes it just whips by, and you wish you hadn't missed it.
I'm not saying this isn't a completely acceptable and, occasionally magical phenomenon, I just thinks it's fairly remarkable that something that relative (without even getting into anything that big-brained, wild-haired people may have had to say about it) measures so much of our lives.
Don't you think that sometimes, you've put in the equivalent of 15 hours into an 8 hour work period, or vice versa in some other number combination? It occasionally seems hard to believe that we even measure how much someone is getting paid not by how much work they do or how good a job they do, but simply for how many individual measured minutes they are in the location of employment. Maybe if yould measure the actual level of stress and labor being put upon the person, you could pay them based on that, or ask them to work until they reach a reasonably determined level.
Obvisouly, it's not only in relation to employment, we base so much legal and social judgement and opinion on people's age, a calculation based on units of time measured since birth. We base so much in our lives on the amount of time spent on this or that, we teach ourselves tactics and invent gadgets to help us be more aware of it, we've developed several different manufacturing and fashion industries just on devices to keep track of it, all based on the concept that it is ineffable, constant, and endlessly measurable.
But I think we could all say that we know what it's like to feel that one measurement of time moved slower than another. Seems to me that other force, the one that's causing something so seemingly reliable to fluctuate that strangely and unpredicably, That's something worth trying to measure and understand.
-It just occurs to me that if the effects of emotion and attitude and environment are so powerful that they can melt and distort a system so logically and theoretically structed as time itself, maybe we're measuring with the wrong ruler.
Dave
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actually a very amusing and astute entry.
Uh, thanks. I'll email you my cell. Cheers!