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We of the age of the machines,” Henry Beston wrote in the 1920s,

“having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of the night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhap

Rather than understanding time’s passage in relationship with the natural world, the artificial measuring of time shifted our cultural allegiance to the disciplines and expectations of capitalism. Clock time was also mixed up with religious doctrine,

As our culture is rapidly becoming electronic, we are less and less what we were, a society of isolated individuals.