For most of human history, time was experienced more like a flow of events than a grid of exact moments. The modern experience of time as a precise, synchronized measurement is relatively recent in human history
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Michel Foucault's concept of the panopticon - a prison designed so inmates never know if they're being watched, they police themselves
We feel personally deficient when we fail to conform to artificial time constraints. Rather than questioning system, we blame ourselves for not managing time better
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We experience genuine anxiety and guilt when we deviate from these artificial rhythms, even when alone
We're never fully present because we're always partially conscious of time's "passage" and upcoming commitments
Before mechanical clocks, they'd use approx solar positioning. Now we can obsessively check down to the second
Our relationships with clocks have created a temporal panopticon where we constantly monitor ourselves against time
We feel personally deficient when we fail to conform to artificial time constraints. Rather than questioning system, we blame ourselves for not managing time better
We internalized mechanical measurements as truth, as the "right" way to exist
We become our own guards, checking watches, measuring ourselves against artif standards
The idea that it could be the "wrong time" to eat or sleep would have seemed absurd
Time was something you moved through, not something that confined you
Label indigenous cultures as "behind" or "stuck in the past"
Frame colonization as "helping" people "move forward"
Create hierarchies based on technological "progress"