Time Is Not the Problem. Our Relationship With Time Is.
Civilization’s crisis is not a shortage of time, but the collision of clocks by which we choose to live. Introduction. The Universal Lament Walk into any workplace, any home, any community gathering, and you will hear the same refrain: "There just isn't enough time." We wear our busyness like a badge of honor, equating constant motion with significance. We check our phones compulsively, respond to messages at all hours, and measure our days in completed tasks rather than moments of presence. The clock has become both master and tormentor, and we have convinced ourselves that this is simply the price of modern life. But what if we have misunderstood the entire relationship? What if time itself is not the scarce resource we imagine it to be, but rather the constant against which our increasingly fragmented lives are measured? Contemporary scholarship is increasingly questioning our modern assumptions about time. As one recent anthology exploring perceptions of time in the t...