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We experience time in a very different way from people immersed in flat schedules and story-less surfaces.
“To indigenous, oral cultures, the ceaseless flux that we call 'time' is overwhelmingly cyclical in character. The senses of an oral people are still attuned to the land around them, still conversant with the expressive speech of the winds and the forest birds, still participant with the sensuous cosmos. Time, in such a world, is not separable from
... See more“What if told you that for many African societies the concept of future doesn’t exist, instead of time moving forward time actually moves backward.” @mumbipoetry
This idea comes from the Kenyan philosopher John Mbiti in his book African Religions and Philosophy. He describes time as a 2-dimensional phenomenon: Sasa, which is the now, the recent, and
... See moreIn the grand scope of history, Africa time, Alaska time, and Aboriginal time are normal. For the vast majority of our history, people have lived with a time sense that was circular, flexible, expandable, fluid, contextual, organic, and seasonal. Time was rich, mysterious, and alive. The default pace was easy and casual.
To the ancients, time was a gift of the gods, to be treated with awe and reverence. Elders were respected precisely because they had aged in the stream of time. Time was something higher than the individual, something not to be controlled but to be appreciated. In the sacred view of time, all good things come as part of a rhythmic process, whether
... See more“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace
This form of time measurement is known as task orientation, and it is the kind of time that is kept in less industrialized societies. Task orientation is also characterized by a tendency not to make overly fine distinctions between “work” (doing chores) and “life” (chatting, eating, relaxing).