TIME AND WHAT WE MAKE OF IT

Time is one of the more confounding products of civilization. While rooted

in nature, it is measured, cut, and consumed in different ways in different

cultures—though rarely satisfactorily in modern ones. In the West, a temporal

system that began as a means of increasing our nearness to God has since

come to serve other masters. Now, more than ever, the struggle over time

involves essential questions that face us as individuals and as a society.

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