Which bugs you more, the pro-clock or the anti-clock propaganda?

[Wonk]

;-)

[SaveABug]

1. What's a clock?

I measure time with shadows. Or the lack of them.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. I'm radical middle where clock is concerned

I won't even look at the time and I will make my mind up at the last minute based on some heart rendering appeal to my emotions without regard for any real issue to do with clocks.

[roughsatori]

3. Until I'm Sure What Brand the Clock is, I'm Not Buying NT

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Other: Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

Yes, children. Once, 30 years ago or so, Chicago (the band) didn't suck.

[RobertSeattle]

5. Person who started this thread should get clocked

:)

[Wonk]

6. I think that'd be a thread unto itself. Why don't you start a poll on it?

:P ;-)

[SOteric]

7. The 'biological clock' agenda.

The tyranny of universal wisdom which spouts that all chicks will one day erupt in a gush of hormone-induced feelings of maternity and foist ourselves onto some unsuspecting sperm donor with undue haste.

Yeah. Right.

[el_gato]

8. John Zerzan: Time and Its Discontents

http://eces.org/index.php/329

snip:
We have gone along with the substantiation of time so that it seems a fact of nature, a power existing in its own right. The growth of a sense of time - the acceptance of time - is a process of adaptation to an ever more reified world. It is a constructed dimension, the most elemental aspect of culture. Time's inexorable nature provides the ultimate model of domination.

The further we go in time the worse it gets. We inhabit an age of the disintegration of experience, according to Adorno. The pressure of time, like that of its essential progenitor, division of labor, fragments and disperses all before it. Uniformity, equivalence, separation are byproducts of time's harsh force. The intrinsic beauty and meaning of that fragment of the world that is not-yet-culture moves steadily toward annihilation under a single cultures-wide clock. Paul Ricoeur's assertion (1985) that "we are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual," fails to notice how they are converging.

Concerning this "fiction" that upholds and accompanies all the forms of imprisonment, "the world is filled with propaganda alleging its existence," as Bernard Aaronson (1972) put it so well. "All awareness," wrote the poet Denise Levertov (1974), "is an awareness of time," showing just how deeply alienated we are in time. We have become regimented under its empire, as time and alienation continue to deepen their intrusion, their debasement of everyday life. "Does this mean," as David Carr (1988) asks, "that the 'struggle' of existence is to overcome time itself?" It may be that exactly this is the last enemy to be overcome.
snip

[Terwilliger]

9. fuck a clock

I'll get there when I do