09-20-2011, 02:52 AM
I have decided it is not true. I do not notice time speeding up, but what I do notice is more crap to be done in the same day, more tasks to accomplish in the same hours. This is a result of the "machine" of society, the technology that we praise like a god, replacing the natural way of things, separating us from our connection to nature/planet/god/inner self. If you were to ask a person in the rainforest if time has sped up, they would ask what you mean. Ask a person in the workplace and they will say heck yeah. This is a result of more technology heaped upon us, more crap we need to do, more laws, more rules, less simplicity.
If you sit back and think about it, put yourself in a position outside the system, do you really think it would seem as though time sped up? Go sit in a room for a whole day without any input or entertainment and see if time instead slows down for you. Our concept of time speeding up is simply too much crap to do in the same amount of time we have always had available. How much "stuff" can be heaped upon us before we say "that's enough"?
I hear folks say "how did we make it before the cell phone?" or "we did just fine before these phones". More gadgets, more steps, more distractions, more entertainment, more addictions. And we know that time flies when we are having fun.
Rant over
If you sit back and think about it, put yourself in a position outside the system, do you really think it would seem as though time sped up? Go sit in a room for a whole day without any input or entertainment and see if time instead slows down for you. Our concept of time speeding up is simply too much crap to do in the same amount of time we have always had available. How much "stuff" can be heaped upon us before we say "that's enough"?
I hear folks say "how did we make it before the cell phone?" or "we did just fine before these phones". More gadgets, more steps, more distractions, more entertainment, more addictions. And we know that time flies when we are having fun.
Rant over