Lately I have been thinking about the future and the distinction between
time and
temporality.
Our relationship to time can vary depending upon our culture and the
era in which we are living. If I imagine living 300 or 400 years ago in
what was primarily an agricultural ‘reality’, time was cyclical—we
measured it in terms of seasons and lived in the certainty that life
didn’t change much from one generation to the next. I can contrast that
to today when time is viewed more like a highway moving ‘from’
someplace ‘to’ someplace. The future is an unknown and each generation
is pretty much making up their own story and their own rules. These two
views are as distinct as a circle and a line.[
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Lately I have been thinking about the future and the distinction
between time and temporality. Our relationship to time can vary
depending upon our culture and the era in which we are living. If I
imagine living 300 or 400 years ago in what was primarily an
agricultural ‘reality’, time was cyclical—we measured it in terms of
seasons and lived in the certainty that life didn’t change much from
one generation to the next. I can contrast that to today when time is
viewed more like a highway moving ‘from’ someplace ‘to’ someplace. The
future is an unknown and each generation is pretty much making up their
own story and their own rules. These two views are as distinct as a
circle and a line.
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