No Time This Time

 


I'm reading John Zerzan and he really gripes about alienation, and its tie to time so much, I thought I would babble a bit on it too.
So, what is "time"?
Oswald Spengler said no one should be allowed to ask, and he knew why. Immanuel Kant believed it to be one of our many postulates we subconsciously develop to relate to the world. A handful of philosophers - like F. H. Bradley and J. J. C. Smart believed it to by nonexistent.
Physicist, and assistant in the original atomic bomb development, Richard Feynman was quoted as answering, "Don't even ask me. It's just too hard to think about." Most Quantum physicists would like to do away with the notion of time, while keeping its mathematical dimensions. While psychoanalysts and psychologists such as Freud, Morris, Loewald, and Eissler all claim to have found "great difficulties" in their studies to define time.
Many say it's a measurable commodity, while others will state it's abstract, but most of you will have few words for a definition and brush it off as a man-made concept.
You're all such fucking simpletons, though in this case you are correct in your assumptions and child-like grasp of this field of science.
It's true what Bertrand Russell wrote, "The importance of time is contained rather in our relation to desire, than in relation to truth."
While there have been countless documentaries on the Earthly concepts of time (seasons, planetary markers), the history of time-keeping gadgets (clocks, calendars), or simple chronology, there are few public studies on the sociology of time, nor many works on how humankind should use it to their best advantage. This shows us that we have a hard time dealing with time, let alone defining it.
The fact of the matter is that time itself is an idea of our early civilizations constructed to help us conquer nature. It is commonly believed when humans switched from hunter-gather (forager-mode) tribes to agricultural societies and the domestication of crops and animals, we needed to know when the best seasons to mate and sow seeds would be, so we began to notice the passage of time.
The concept of time was then used to bind the worker to the machine. Time was made into an enemy when it was first learned that its use helped man deal with his environment, it was only made worse in the Renaissance when the another hand was added to clocks so as to count the seconds, making us aware symbols are slipping by faster. This was also the period that brought us artistic representations of Greek titan Kronos and Roman god Saturn combined to make up Father Time, complete with a sickle - just as Death carried.
It all worked so well sloth became a vice, and the Puritans proclaimed the "waste of time" to be the worst of sins. It was from the Puritans Benjamin Franklin drew his quote, "Time is money."
Clock in, clock out - I make this much an hour. Impressive. Your value can be clocked down to the minute.
In the mid 1700s, Jean Jacques Rousseau threw out his time-piece to symbolize his rejection of civilization and modern society. Later, Edgar Allen Poe did the same thing. Johann von Goethe and William Blake attacked Isaac Newton for abstracting everyday life, while stripping it of passion and sensuality.
When Nietzsche climbed six-thousand feet above Lake Silviplana he realized that he needed to get beyond, not only good and evil, but time itself, and was then inspired to write 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'.
Why the hatred of time?
I can answer that with another question: What is at the end of all of our time?
The Vedic Maha-Kali, the total peace which follows the complete dissolution of the universe - absolute night. You know, the fear of that sickle.
Chicken shits!
What classified Savitri Devi's "men in time" most was their fear of death and need to struggle to become the "man against time", or higher, "man above time", similar to Nietzsche's Ubermensh. She further stated, "The outstanding goals of 'progress' tend to reduce ["men above time"] to a minority: attempting to suppress them altogether. Is this what mankind wants? If so, then we have lost our raison deatre, and the sooner the end of this so-called 'civilization' the better."
Well bring on Kalki, sister!
Wait, give me a minute to collect my thoughts.
Fuck it -I'm ready to punch out early. Let's get this kaliyuga finished up now.

 

 

2005