Space, time and insanity

Contemporary market-driven society compresses space. It constrains space and time by demanding your attention, either to consume or to make you productive. It does this so as to drive its agenda. You’re either a producer or a consumer, contributing by creating ‘value’ or by consuming ‘value’. Anything else is deemed to be worthless, pointless, irrelevant. And by the standards of the system, and its need to survive, this is true.

By all other standards, it’s insanity.

Of course, your very being isn’t worthless, pointless, or irrelevant. Your very existence is a miracle and a combination of billions of factors. None of which were designed in a factory to deliver an outcome. You weren’t born to serve the market, and after you die, the market won’t care about you.

The reclamation of space and time is fundamental to a being that isn’t manic and internally chaotic. If you’re split between your own internal demands and external demands that are deeply misaligned, there will be a great tension that will continually spill over.

Society won’t validate this approach. It will be shocked by it. Shame it. But the evidence for the benefits is in plain sight. The examples are seen in those who beat to their own drum: unaffected psychologically by the external marching orders, they live a qualitatively different life.

And the curious thing is, if someone’s marching to their own drum, you may never know just by looking at them.