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Temporal Belonging
This sea change isn’t as complete as it may yet become. The large temporal frameworks of our lives remain fairly firm. We still work comparatively standard hours or go to school from morning till afternoon, fall through spring. But to the degree that electronics take over our activities and our interactions, personal time becomes more fungible.
Judith Shulevitz • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
Our social networks provide us with a false sense of timeless connectedness while actually fostering a profound disconnection. We’re connected but can’t connect. Social feeds lack a sense of time, permanence or place, and so there is nothing to contextualise ourselves against; there’s nothing to belong to.
Myth and Metrics: How social media robs us... See more
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