Everything feels more indeterminate than it did before. The more we do know, the gap of what we don't know seems to grow bigger. As jobs become more 'flexible' time loses itself within work. When does work end? How have we become a society where as we are given the opportunity to become more flexible to do other things, to stream-line our time in order to make time, does work become more apparent in every aspect of our lives? The term 'living to work' seems to now have a new meaning.
When I allude to Now I think it's been like this for a very long time. Maybe without the faux-flexibility of time given by companies, governments that work for companies etc now; in the past it used to be more rigid & structured. When the bell rang, when the gong struck, it designated that each persons' time was to occupy another set of rules & parameters. I guess it doesn't make it any different from Now, although when the bell rings, a tone bleeps, it happens at any time- therefore your time Now, is constantly in a state of flux. Your time can no longer be determined. The media choose to romanticize work in the past, because it allows them to control how you view work Now. What are you unsatisfied with? How can we make it 'better' so that you can work longer without you realizing it? Work is Fun, isn't it?
This indeterminacy brings more layers to everyone's lives. People feel like they 'haven't lived' if they haven't experienced the full-force of what 'work' really is. They feel shunned when they aren't part of the society that do work, they become depressed, unmotivated & ultimately dangerously, they feel useless because of their inability to find/keep work. But why? Everyone wants to join this twisted club Capital, the majority are members, but there are a few who keep getting rejected from the membership program.
The media however, seem to paint a different picture. You deserve to take that holiday, buy that beautiful car, live that luxury, but it's all indeterminate. It is all a false-reality. You chose to work these long hours to fulfill these media-related fantasies. You want to live that no one has ever lived before. You want to go experience life. Have you?
Supposedly, the more Time you have, the more Freedom will come with it. The idea of 'freeing up time' seems to be another indeterminate faux-feeling to keep you enslaved in the flexible-inflexibility of time. You can never have any Free Time because Capital dictates it not to be. The flexibility of your time, as dispersed by the media as a way to have more 'time for family' does not exist. It exists in the space of the non-space- the internet, and social media applications where time does not matter because all of it exists in a hyperreal environment. You have no more real-time, you just have on-line time. This space is even more indeterminate. We have now traded, bought, sold our real-time for time that exists in code, programs and apps.
Time no longer exists as a method to reflect the vastness and emptiness of nature and the universe. It has to be filled, warped, and flexed into a shape of doing, it's supposed to define something of your existence. You 'Live by your Work'. Things cannot be determined by Time, because you don't own your Time. You've bought into the indeterminate. They got rid of the punch card, because you will never punch out.
