Colonization of time
Scott Badger
lupine at ncia.net
Wed Aug 6 20:18:36 CDT 1997
Clocks and time. No time for anything says ex-agent Bonk. Somebody has
taken it. So, away heads Bonk, into the wild, to seize his moment back.
Back, as well, to a purer form of slavery (away from those
institutionalized Capetown slaves with whom his own parallax has
narrowed) - a clearer, more organic slavery. A world to be devoured at
the gallop.
Are we now the slaves? Is that the point? Like poor Bonk, our every
moment taken. Claimed. Seized. Bought or bartered towards the profit of
a few. What tiny fraction of "our" time can most of us truly call our
own? In MD, the reduction of time, I think, is no less important than
Mason and Dixon's reduction of the land(and sky)scape. A precise
division and assigment of both are essential to any form of Commerce
(profit, power, etc.). And as we know, where there's Commerce, there is
Slavery.
Scott Badger
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