286 / Travelling at the speed of the soul
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286 / Travelling at the speed of the soul
When you fly into a distant time zone, you feel like you’ve moved too fast and now you are out of sync with the world around you. The British writer Robert Colville says we are living through “the Great Acceleration,” and like Sune, he argues it’s not simply our tech that’s getting faster—it’s almost everything.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way…: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly
Caught in the fast lane of a time highway, I feel time rushing past me like the landscape through a side window. Moving ever onwards, I fret I’ve missed an exit, the route to time better spent. There are exits that give me the chance to leave, yet I only take them as a brief meandering detour before speeding back into the flow of traffic that pulls... See more
Emma Proud • Getting off the ‘time highway’: reconnecting with the rest-of-nature through the wheel of the year
Speed is essential. Beyond tech speed, I can recognise other types of speed, though I'm unsure how many there are.
Here are a few ideas:
Tech speed – Efficiency in digital processing, communication, process reproduction, raw calculation. No need to think.
Cheetah speed – Raw, biological speed; physical speed at its peak. Evolutionary speed.
Human speed
“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
A quote from The Art of Stillness
in praise of slowing down
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