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The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and the world around us.

The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age. For every phase of its development theclock is both the outstanding

Some of the regulating mechanisms for collectives that have been most successful in the pre-Internet world can be understood in part as modulating the

In Greek mythology, Chronos was “Father Time” and he devoured his own children. One son got away and rose above time to become a God; this was Zeus. H

from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”

“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer,”

Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report. An openness — an empathy — was necessary if the attention was to matter. Such openness

So, it’s very easy not to know north from south because it all looks the same, the ice and the overcast sky. And he said, “Well, you know, it’s just n

“Gathering, for Le Guin, is not a masculine, techno-utopian process of disruption or of moving fast and breaking things, but the methodical, deep labo

Entropic Apex

Gathering is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those

It’s going to be an expert through the proving of data — an expert through action, rather than an expert through appointment.

“And I think it was memory that saved us. You see, we have already known that

It is the story that makes the difference.

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options.

But I’m going to posit to you that the liberal arts cliché turns out not to be insulting at all, because the really significant education in thinking

learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to cho

That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, t

For us a "long time" can be almost anything- ten ortwenty years, two or three months, a few weeks, or even acouple of days. The South Asian, however,

Thereare those, of a psychological bent, who would say t hat weare obsessed with time . They can point to individuals inAmerican culture who are li te

The best reason for the layman to spend time studyingculture is th at he can learn something useful and enlighten-ing about himself. This can be an in

a rate of con-sumption which tends to level everything outinto an undifferentiated mass of high-qualitydescription and trenchant reflection that be-co