repost: https://hexbear.net/post/2052540

  • Nakoichi [he/him]M
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    19 days ago

    This comes back around to my unironic assertation that our concept of time is a bourgeois construct that exists to sell alarm clocks.

    • hamid@vegantheoryclub.org
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      19 days ago

      EP Thompson wrote about time and clocks extensively in "Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism" and two takeaways are how humans outside of capitalism understand and experience time differently and that clocks are a necessary prerequisite for capitalism. To turn around your assertion a little, capitalist time as described by clocks are a bourgeois construct that exist to enforce capitalist production and sell us everything.

    • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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      18 days ago

      maybe not sell alarm clocks but absolutely structure and control behavior, that shit goes waaaaaaay back though

    • Egon [they/them]
      hexagon
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      18 days ago

      We have abolished second sleep so our capitalist overlords can make a few dollars more. We have gaslighted people into believing circadian rythms don't exist and a large part of the population are just lazy. To cope with this we have normalized needing stimulants in order to function (Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee)