This is a leftist meme?
Yes.
I can’t do image posts, and I’m not linking to r****t, but there are other examples out there of the meme.
What do leftists have against time? Also, why are you censoring “reddit”?
(1) It’s exaggerated satire.
(2) Fuck R*ddit
Satire of what exactly?
Ourselves.
I’m not going to lie, I feel like I am being trolled here. Every answer I get is nonsensical.
Many leftists (me included) want to abolish many things, borders, the state, the police, capitalism, the army, prisons etc.
This is satire on that. “Abolish time”.
The short answer is: the industrial revolution.
Prior to the industrial revolution, labor was mostly agricultural, which meant hours varied based on the season, weather, daylight, and vibes. The rise of factories led to factory owner attempts to control their workers more. Better technology for mass-producing clocks meant factories had them and used them against workers, including having clocks that purposefully tracked time incorrectly in order to make workers work longer. it was just one more tool for capitalists to use to exploit labor. The concept of a “company clock” or being “on the clock” came from this. Prior to this, workers were paid for production, not time.
Historia Civilis has a great video on it. Which is a very strange outlier as there is nothing else remotely like this on the rest of the channel.
This is confusing to me too. Is it related to work hours? Perhaps labor done vs time used for labor?
Nah, I really need to keep careful track of time. When my meds are working and I’m actually happy for once despite the soul-crushing reality of capitalism, I’m kind of a busy-body. Like I have a pathological desire to solve problems, and timekeeping is a really excellent tool in problem solving.
Like I’m an autistic person and I have a lot of specific special interests like differential equations, control theory, music production, acoustics…I really need to manage my time to accomplish even a fraction of what I want to do.
There’s definitely a critique to be made about how restrictions on the management of time and scheduling are imposed on us, and I would never want to impose timekeeping on people who don’t care to use it, but I don’t think timekeeping itself imposes a hierarchy.
While I’m sure there’s one or two who take it seriously, I’ve always thought of this meme as a bit tongue in cheek.
I figured, but I do vaguely remember reading an article somewhere in the Anarchist Library a while back where the author was unironically arguing that time is an unjustifiable hierarchy.
Looks like an attempt to bring back the glory of
circadian cycleThis is no veggies no bedtime anarchism. Clocks aren’t your enemy, being able to be organised is good actually. Getting mad at distance because some people hit you with a ruler as a kid is unserious.
Getting mad at distance because some people hit you with a ruler as a kid is unserious.
Right? There’s so much more serious stuff to get mad about like child abuse or units of measurement.
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