tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post9155449652137197459..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Inventing the tyranny of timeJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-37163327871116278382013-03-17T17:55:23.435+11:002013-03-17T17:55:23.435+11:00Hi kvd. You are right, of course, but time as we k...Hi kvd. You are right, of course, but time as we know it today is still a new invention. <br /><br />On the second point, you are again right. We live in a new age with an explosion in the number of single people, widowed and separated, who live alone without immediate human support networks. The number will grow and grow over coming decades. <br /><br />I first came across this problem years back on a visit to Hervey Bay in Queensland. There at the local club dance, I watched the women now alone who had retired there but then lost their partners. They sat and listened to the music; a few danced with each other. <br /><br />I don't have an answer, I wish I did. I haven't down a detailed analysis of this, perhaps I should, bit over the next twenty years the number of singles living alone without support is likely to quadruple. To them, time is quite likely to be an unwanted sadist. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-69905810832174863982013-03-17T16:26:40.907+11:002013-03-17T16:26:40.907+11:00Jim
I wonder where the sundial sits in your thoug...Jim<br /><br />I wonder where the sundial sits in your thought that time of day wasn't really significant to Romans and earlier? And wasn't the study of the heavens fairly dependent upon timed sightings - not of the 'in a couple of days' sort.<br /><br />For mine, I think of the 'tyranny of time' in a different light: there's far too much of it - unending, bland, same old same old. Sometimes I just wish it would just go away, and be done with me. Time unwanted is a sadist, I think.<br /><br />kvdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com