(Reminiscent of the aliens in Slaughterhouse Five who saw the past and future at once, and so thought of humans as worms tunneling through time. He writes about how time isn’t a thing that happens but it is us. “Finitude”: his point is that to distance ourselves from that reality, we create a distance from time itself. Heidigger says we could argue that we are a limited amount of time.Martin Heidegger: the Nazi sympathizer wrote extensively about time management and its philosophy - can any of his lessons be pulled from his horrifying deeds? His Being and Time questioned whether we exist at all outside of time.Jim Benson wrote that the more efficient you get the more you become “a limitless reservoir for other peoples expectations”.“The technologies we use ‘to get on top of everything’ always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the everything of which we’re trying to get on top.” (47).Secular modernity replaces faith in afterlife so FOMO heightens (we only have one life to live).“Efficiency trap”: “It’s not simply that you never get to your email it’s that the process of ‘getting to your email’ actually generates more email.”.
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