Terracotta on Nostr: “One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor ...
“One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. - Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night (1928)
“Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don’t know if it even exists.” - Clifford D. Simak, Shakespeare’s Planet (1976)
We are the only animals who live according to a calendar and have “days” and “weeks” and “nights”, every other animal just is. All they know is the present. Must we have a calendar? Is there a “better” way to calendarize time, is there a more “efficient” way? What does this lead to? This definitely impacts human psychology.
Quotes I liked above and I didn’t merely want to plop them down without any of my own thoughts or substance, albeit brief.
There’s definitely some sort of burden on us, albeit a structure by calendarizing time the way we do. Both psychologically and physically. And we can go on and on. This could be a great convo. Thinking the strain and drain and molding that our current calendarization does to our functioning, thoughts, etc.
Another point. Also things that take little to no energy or time to create are of no value. Think about it. Here are 3 examples:
Talk is cheap and becomes cheap. Levers that are easily pulled to generate fleeting dopamine cause you to consistently use them because they don’t satisfy you in the long run. Printing money devalues currencies and expropriates wealth (Bolivar, peso, Lebanese pound, Argentinian peso).
Scrolling mindlessly on social media.
Another point. The only scarce resource on the planet is our time, the rest is priced relative to time. The ultimate pricer in our system is time and then energy. It prices everything and then it depends what sub-systems you are in or choose to be in to price the rest of the world. Time is deflationary, energy is deflationary. Meaning time is invaluable so the rest of the system falls infinitely in price relative to it.
“Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don’t know if it even exists.” - Clifford D. Simak, Shakespeare’s Planet (1976)
We are the only animals who live according to a calendar and have “days” and “weeks” and “nights”, every other animal just is. All they know is the present. Must we have a calendar? Is there a “better” way to calendarize time, is there a more “efficient” way? What does this lead to? This definitely impacts human psychology.
Quotes I liked above and I didn’t merely want to plop them down without any of my own thoughts or substance, albeit brief.
There’s definitely some sort of burden on us, albeit a structure by calendarizing time the way we do. Both psychologically and physically. And we can go on and on. This could be a great convo. Thinking the strain and drain and molding that our current calendarization does to our functioning, thoughts, etc.
Another point. Also things that take little to no energy or time to create are of no value. Think about it. Here are 3 examples:
Talk is cheap and becomes cheap. Levers that are easily pulled to generate fleeting dopamine cause you to consistently use them because they don’t satisfy you in the long run. Printing money devalues currencies and expropriates wealth (Bolivar, peso, Lebanese pound, Argentinian peso).
Scrolling mindlessly on social media.
Another point. The only scarce resource on the planet is our time, the rest is priced relative to time. The ultimate pricer in our system is time and then energy. It prices everything and then it depends what sub-systems you are in or choose to be in to price the rest of the world. Time is deflationary, energy is deflationary. Meaning time is invaluable so the rest of the system falls infinitely in price relative to it.