time is elastic...we all know this...and it has multiple levels of experience...there's internet time ( a species of immediate gratification that meshes well with the post-modern consumerist ethos...and there is a consumerist ethos...although how ethical it is is open to question...we have pondered this...what makes a "good" consumer? judicious expenditure or consitent expenditure? depoends on whether you are one of the retail hegemons or not i imagine...subjective [and, possibly, objectivist]...consistent would fit their defintion of "good" near as i can determine...is there a hierarchy of consumption? is it more ethical [in a consumerist sense] to purchase diamonds rather than mundane foodstuffs? is there a duty to consume or is that an expansion of necessary consumption [food say] that the hegemons have grafted onto the unnecesary dressed up as imperative need? so many questions )...and there's clock time...that tells me when to be at work or when the kids need to be picked up or dropped off...and then there's event time...i experienced that today when, on a cloudless, crisp autumn morning i heard an explosion off to the wnw and the power went out...that was at 7:45 a.m. cdt and the power was off as long as it took to change an exploded transformer...no specifically delineated time parameters...it was what it was and took as long as it took...simple elapsed time...and if it had not have been so early on a sunday the neigborhood would have emptuied out as people went in search of that internet time...i assume they mostly slept though it all...
they missed the estimate...it was back on at 9:19 a.m. cdt...it was just a guess
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