I agree completely with this article - we are trapped by the clocks. The only thing I'd like to ask... Perhaps a more tricky question is how do we actually free ourselves and not care about time when it's so tied to everything else?
I go to school for 8 hours a day, and quite literally law forces me to move from period to period even if I get in a creative flow in 1st period and want to keep creating art, I need to leave else I be marked absent.
Also, time is actually important if we want to organize events where a lot of people are meeting at once. It's a different world here in the US - people live in different places, and meetings must usually be planned. We can't just forget about time and stop by at all our friends' houses, spontaneously asking if they want to go for dinner. I wish we could, but we can't.
So what forms of resistance can we transition to? Maybe taking off our watches or hiding the time on our phones and laptops. When we get home after our 8 hours under the time tyrant maybe we just let ourselves forget about it. Cut our losses and sieze what we can. What do you think?
I think the answer lies in Justin Scott's video titled, "The Lost Joy of Revolution." Essentially, to "rebel" against this tyrannical clock god is through having joy. Here me out —
Yes, we are STILL held to this "time" structure even when we’re aware of it. We can't reject time because it's tied to everything and is needed for coordination and planning, but resistance is more than doing the things you need to do or want to do slowly.
It's about playing, giggling, feeling, opening up, when you're doing these things, and only then can you truly resist and control time. Think about when you go on vacation, how does time feel there versus your day to day?
Justin Scott's video support this. When discussing revolutions, he states:
"They convinced us that locking in, grinding, that gritting our teeth is the only way out but the most dangerous thing you can do during an empire in decay is to smile without permission - It's to laugh out loud. It's to love loudly.
"It's to imagine more because revolution isn't just burning stuff down. It's gardening while it burns. It's building joy in the rubble. It's dancing on the crack floor of a failing world and saying, "you're not gonna take my ability to feel alive."
"Joy was never a distraction, it was a ritual."
It begs the questions:
What if joy isn't an escape?
What if it's the way to return to ourselves? To end the tyranny of time and make it our friend?
To end on the note that joy is the answer to your question, he states:
"Revolution needs your giggle just as much as it needs your grind."
"If the new world [that you are fighting for] has no joy, you just rebuilt the old one with better graphics."
I agree completely with this article - we are trapped by the clocks. The only thing I'd like to ask... Perhaps a more tricky question is how do we actually free ourselves and not care about time when it's so tied to everything else?
I go to school for 8 hours a day, and quite literally law forces me to move from period to period even if I get in a creative flow in 1st period and want to keep creating art, I need to leave else I be marked absent.
Also, time is actually important if we want to organize events where a lot of people are meeting at once. It's a different world here in the US - people live in different places, and meetings must usually be planned. We can't just forget about time and stop by at all our friends' houses, spontaneously asking if they want to go for dinner. I wish we could, but we can't.
So what forms of resistance can we transition to? Maybe taking off our watches or hiding the time on our phones and laptops. When we get home after our 8 hours under the time tyrant maybe we just let ourselves forget about it. Cut our losses and sieze what we can. What do you think?
I think the answer lies in Justin Scott's video titled, "The Lost Joy of Revolution." Essentially, to "rebel" against this tyrannical clock god is through having joy. Here me out —
Yes, we are STILL held to this "time" structure even when we’re aware of it. We can't reject time because it's tied to everything and is needed for coordination and planning, but resistance is more than doing the things you need to do or want to do slowly.
It's about playing, giggling, feeling, opening up, when you're doing these things, and only then can you truly resist and control time. Think about when you go on vacation, how does time feel there versus your day to day?
Justin Scott's video support this. When discussing revolutions, he states:
"They convinced us that locking in, grinding, that gritting our teeth is the only way out but the most dangerous thing you can do during an empire in decay is to smile without permission - It's to laugh out loud. It's to love loudly.
"It's to imagine more because revolution isn't just burning stuff down. It's gardening while it burns. It's building joy in the rubble. It's dancing on the crack floor of a failing world and saying, "you're not gonna take my ability to feel alive."
"Joy was never a distraction, it was a ritual."
It begs the questions:
What if joy isn't an escape?
What if it's the way to return to ourselves? To end the tyranny of time and make it our friend?
To end on the note that joy is the answer to your question, he states:
"Revolution needs your giggle just as much as it needs your grind."
"If the new world [that you are fighting for] has no joy, you just rebuilt the old one with better graphics."
Great article!