Clocks

“In manufacturing such a product [seconds and minutes], the clock has the effect of disassociating time from human events and thus nourishes the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God’s conception, or nature’s. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created.”

- excerpt from “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, by Neil Postman

Yes, I’m aware of the irony of posting this quote out of context, considering the content of Postman’s book. But I still thought it was a profound statement.

Perhaps I can once again escape the confines of time.