Each Spring, an hour is stolen. The last couple years, we've been threatened with not getting it back. How'd we get here, and where are we going? When we arrive, will we know what time it really is?
I am at a constant stalemate with some dear friends on this issue, who argue, not without some merit, that government-issues time zones are phony anyway, so why not get out of work “earlier?” All I can say in response is, “The meridian should be at the meridian. Adjust our schedules instead.”
But I feel, in my gut, that it is damaging to maintain the misalignment, in a way I can’t prove or argue. I, too, am way out on the edge of my time “zone,” such that the sun here does not match the clock well. So why does it matter? And yet, even if all that were true, it just feels like another insult, another demand that we submit to a new fiat to continue the disorienting process of destabilizing us and disenfranchising us from what we know we know.
I am at a constant stalemate with some dear friends on this issue, who argue, not without some merit, that government-issues time zones are phony anyway, so why not get out of work “earlier?” All I can say in response is, “The meridian should be at the meridian. Adjust our schedules instead.”
But I feel, in my gut, that it is damaging to maintain the misalignment, in a way I can’t prove or argue. I, too, am way out on the edge of my time “zone,” such that the sun here does not match the clock well. So why does it matter? And yet, even if all that were true, it just feels like another insult, another demand that we submit to a new fiat to continue the disorienting process of destabilizing us and disenfranchising us from what we know we know.
I talked about it a few weeks ago, but I neglected to put this episode on Substack in a timely manner ... https://briandoleary.com/ep97/
I have some upkeep to do.
Same thing with my Natural Order Podcast https://naturalorder.substack.com/
We're planning to record an episode on this topic later this week. We will definitely link to this article.
Thanks JD
Thank you, Brian. Love your content.