“We're
living through a profound shift in worldview, from the belief that time and
space are entities in the universe to one in which they belong to the living.”
Biocentrism Robert Lanza, M.D. argues in an article that
time is more of a social-constructed idea than a reality. He states that he
believes that education and experience has shape time. He describes clocks and
watches as "comparisons of events", but says that time is conceptually
not this.
I agree with Lanza's argument. I think that our sleep and
school and work schedules shape how we fill time, but time is not something
that is measurable. For example, I think that, whoever came up with the idea
that we sleep at night and work during the daylight did this because they were
tired, not because it was their definite "bedtime".
Working on "week days" (which is a social
construct in itself) and having off on weekends is another society construct.
Our bodies and minds are used to the routine of getting up at a certain time
and going to sleep at a certain time, but this does night necessarily mean that
this can't change. People who often feel in a "time crunch" are
actually just having problems following this social construct. In reality,
everyone has the same amount of "time" during the day, just some are
better at managing this unit of measurement than others.
Thinking time is a social construct may be pessimistic
sounding thinking. A lot of people feel this way because questioning things
that are yet to have been discovered is out of people's comfort zone. But,
like Socrates preached with his method, you can’t discover things if no one
ever questions anything. A society that does not tweak and refined their ways
is an unproductive, undeveloped one.
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