The value and sense of time

Carlos Mora Vanegas

In an interesting paper about the time John Zerzan gives us that life in its simplest path, is said to be a journey through time, a journey through alienation is one of the most public secret. "No clock strikes for that is happy," says a German proverb. The passage of time, once nonsense is now the inevitable rhythm curtails us, mirroring the blind authority itself. Guyau (1890) determined the flow of time as "the distinction between what you need and what you have" and therefore "where budding is the remorse." Carpe diem, says the maximum, but civilization forces us always to mortgage the present to future.

The weather is constantly turned towards greater rigidity of the regularity and universality. The technological world of Capital mapping the process through it, could not exist without him. "The importance of time," wrote Bertrand Russell (1929), is based "more on his relationship with our desires in relation to the truth." There is a longing that is as palpable as the time, and the denial of desire can not be organized in final form through the vast building we call time.

How much time worth to you? It is a question that must be answered to the extent that has stopped to evaluate the time or means to you, knowing that we walk on it without knowing for sure, consciously when we finished, at least the opportunity to remain physically alive.

We're going to give value to the extent we believe that what we invest and how we have prepared for it.

In a letter from the club of effectiveness appears that the use of time concerns us all. The main reason for this is that, for our society, time is money. Thus, we usually organize our time in the same way we manage the money: what we measure, we count, we calculate, we add, subtract it, we divide, we invest ... and so on. Some people-even-looking to make a "balance" of the past, those seeking to "save" time in the present and those seeking a formula to "capitalize" time in the future. But time ... not money.

We say that when a psychologist is worth fifty dollars, a banker worth ten, a teacher worth twelve, a lawyer or a hundred. But ... How much is that when a friend? How much of a father with his son? What is the value of time for a terminally ill? And for lovers? In fact, we can not measure or calculate, numerically, how much worth the time. Because it is every person who decides the value ... and sense of time.

The important thing is to realize that we know how to exploit all that we are given opportunity to stay in this dimension, appreciate what represents the minute, hour, days, years and optimize their use in terms of our growth, to know to use. Hence, it is said, never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

John Zerzan on time gives us that with this we face a philosophical enigma, a psychological mystery, and a logic puzzle. Considering the common treatment of the concept of the abstraction of time as having a concrete, material existence is not surprising that some have doubted its existence since mankind began to distinguish the "time itself" of the visible and tangible changes in the world. As noted by Michael Ende (1984): "In the world there is a big secret that something ordinary yet We are all part of it, everyone is aware of it, but few ever think about it. Most of us just accept it and never ask about it. This secret is the time

Add Zerzan, that the growth of our sense of time-time acceptance is a process of adaptation to a world that is increasingly common substance given "real" abstract concepts. Dimension is built, the most elementary aspect of culture. The inexorable nature of time provides the ultimate model of domination.

The more we advance in time, the worse. We live in an era of disintegration of the experience, according to Adorno. The pressure of time, as her parent substance, the division of labor, and scattered fragments all behind him. Uniformity, equivalence and separation are side products of the brute force of time. Beauty and meaning of the world is not-yet-culture, given intrinsically, move steadily toward their annihilation under a single clock as wide as a culture. The assertion of Paul Ricoeur (1985) that "we are not able to produce a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual", it fails when it seeks to capture the convergence of these dimensions.

Time flows necessarily, would not have happened without your sense of time. Whatever it is that which flows, however, flows over time. That is, time flows from himself, which makes no sense to the fact that nothing can flow over him. We have no vocabulary to explain abstract available time, but a vocabulary in which time and budget is implicit. What is needed is to question all these things given. Metaphysics, with some limitations imposed upon the division of labor from birth, is too narrow for such work.

Do not forget as indicated by Epicurus, that "Time is the crash between accidents". Looking more closely, Zerzan suggests its genesis is less mysterious. Many have thought, in fact, that notions like "the past", "this" and "future" are real linguistic or physical. Neo-Freudian theorist Lacan, for example, decided that the experience of time is essentially an effect of language. A person without language would probably not feel the passage of time. RAWilson (1980), going well over the issue, suggested that language would have begun by the need to express the symbolic time. Gosseth (1972) argued that the system of tenses found in the Indo-European languages ​​developed at the same time an awareness of universal or abstract time. Time and language are co-terminus, decided Derrida (1982): "being in one is to be in the other." Time is a symbolic construct immediately preceding, relatively speaking, to all others, and that the language needs to be updated.

Paul Valery (1962) referred to the decline of the species over time as a sign of alienation from nature, "through a form of abuse, the man creates time," he wrote. At the time devoid of time before his fall, which has been by far the greater part of our existence as humans, life, has often said, had a rhythm but not a progression. It was the state in which the soul could "collect, in his whole being" in the words of Rousseau, in the absence of temporary structures, "where time is nothing to the soul." The activities themselves, usually the type of entertainment, were the points of reference before time and civilization, nature provided the necessary signals, quite independent of the "time". Mankind must have been aware of memories and purposes long before they became explicit distinctions between past, present and future (Fraser, 1988). Further, as the linguist Whorf estimated (1956), "pre-literary communities [primitive], far from being subrational, could show the human mind works on a higher plane of rationality and more complex than civilized men ".

In conclusion, we step in time, we have a beginning and an end should be covered when we come to this perishable way for us to use it effectively in every moment of our existence according to the role we play in it, namely roles involving use the time according to their target

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