Well Autumn seems to have descended onto wales this week, the weather is colder and inevitably wetter. I am not sure what to write about this month, I seem to have been so busy I have not accomplished anything really.
Lets talk about time, one of the things that I noticed recently is peoples need to fill up time. There was an advert on TV the other day saying that now you would have more time for life because the internet was now mobile!!. Surely that would give us Less time not more. To be contactable at all times is surely not a good thing, dont we all need moments where we are out of contact, untouchable, unattainable.
It scares me that kids think that because they have mobile phones they are safe!! How does that work is your mother going to climb down the line and save you from the person who is attacking you. Nope I dont think thats how it works, it reminds me of that horrible scene in the first Slasher film where the girl is on the phone when she is murdered and the mother can only sit and listen in horror at her daughters final moments..............................
Time is and is not ............its a thing that we create to measure the passage of the sun and demark the day but it also does not exist naturally...........only entropy exists, but we give time power over us all of the time...........we have no time to be ............
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I like of your choice of entropy as an absolute measure of our fourth dimension. You must be a scientist. Or should I say scientist philosopher?
To be thoughtful about the quality of your life seems a good thing. Unfortunately we are diverted into something called ‘time-management’ within this emerges the concept of ‘quality time’.
By implication, to be more productive in our careers we need to spend some other kind of time that clearly is not ‘quality-time’. We need to eke out our quality time in carefully metered doses.
Our children are encouraged to achieve targets rather than be educated. To be educated you need to be intellectually and emotionally willing. To achieve targets you need to grit your teeth and look forward to your quality time.
We in the UK are relatively free of the oppressive concerns of disease, starvation and penury. Our children, or our children’s children, could join the gods in the firmament but I fear they will join the cogs in the machine.
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