Rabbit Holes 🕳 #17
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Rabbit Holes 🕳 #17
The Age of Reorientation
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
We live with these realities because they make the rest of our lives feel manageable. But time did not have to be arranged that way. We have imagined time, at least in Western countries, as subservient to commerce, and attempted to export or forcibly impose that understanding worldwide.
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
the ideal of limitlessness consumption serves the modern economy quite well, but it does not serve the person well at all.2 This ideal imparts to us all a spirit of scarcity that darkens our experience: not enough time, not enough attention, not enough capacity to care. But upon what does this spirit feed? It feeds, in part, on the temptation to li... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
The purpose of the cultural analysis above is to show that when the good life is sped up to living multiple lifetimes (intragenerational), the decay rate is short and the present is compressed—which puts the denomination in crisis.