The good post there applies here, we live in a society that causes us to inevitably step on each other and somebody will always end up annoyed. One most common factor being that people are cramped into tiny, poorly separated spaces with no communal areas, where they can hear each other’s every sound, because money.
The best we can do to get on in these shitty situations is compromise and recognise it’s a dumb arrangement that shouldn’t exist to start with.
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.
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)
The good post there applies here, we live in a society that causes us to inevitably step on each other and somebody will always end up annoyed. One most common factor being that people are cramped into tiny, poorly separated spaces with no communal areas, where they can hear each other’s every sound, because money.
The best we can do to get on in these shitty situations is compromise and recognise it’s a dumb arrangement that shouldn’t exist to start with.
This comes back around to my unironic assertation that our concept of time is a bourgeois construct that exists to sell alarm clocks.
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.
Debord would agree with you
maybe not sell alarm clocks but absolutely structure and control behavior, that shit goes waaaaaaay back though
oh yeah I know it was part shitpost but the humor lies in that truth.
ye idk why i took an obvious joke comment and went
about it lmao all good though nako
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)