Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
Mirrors and clocks transformed society, but they’re so old that nobody questions them.
Clocks created a culture of anxiety.
Mirrors created a culture of narcissism.
David Perelltwitter.com
I didn’t fancy the linearity of conventional biographies,” he said. “Lives don’t run in straight lines, and every time we think about them in retrospect (i.e., every time we start remembering) we actually rethink them. Our lives are stories we write and rewrite. There is no single reliable narrative of a life.”
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"We waste years by not wanting to waste hours"
- Amos Tversky
this reminds me of Byung-Chul Han’s work on the disappearance of rituals.
