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| \n \n Many people take for granted that our adu lt lives must be spent rushing from one task to another in order to lead p roductive and fulfilling lives. Time is organized on our calendars down to the minute\, and living or any sense of timelessness is elusive\, relegat ed (if we are lucky) to days off or vacations. In the war economy\ , time is a type of currency. We explicitly extoll that concept w ith the maxim\, “Time is Money\,” and often unthinkingly absorb the ever-d emanding need to be productive as a virtue of modern life. \nIn grad uate school\, I (Marie) studied the rise of the Minoans on the island of C rete. My dissertation was on how the concept of time changed in the Minoan civilization over a 2000 year span\, from an agrarian\, largely egalitari an clan/family-centered people to a dominator culture built on internation al trade and the existence of extreme elites\, with all the normal trappin gs that brings to any culture. What I found was that people tracked time’s passing in very simple and individualistic ways during the earlier egalit arian phase. But once trade and markets appeared on the island\, w ith the elites managing production and consumption\, how time was managed became a concern of the elites\, and everyone on the island began managing time and calendars in the same way. Time was also coordinated wi th the calendar systems of their trading partners in Egypt and in the Near East. \nI tell this story to illustrate that the war economy’s conc
ern with time management and control is not new to our culture. The coordi
nation of needs in complex cultures demand that time and our relationship
have some organization. But the question we might ask ourselves is\, Join us in conversat ion on how the war economy imprisons us in constraints of the clock and br inging ourselves in a more renewing relationship with time The nex t Local Peace Economy gathering is on Wednesday\, February March 12th at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT. \n\n \n \n
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