Amerika

First, a word about feedback loops: if there was a chance to design this blog over again, it would be done without images. The reason is that people identify too much with the image, judge the post by the image, and therefore, see the post as subsidiary to the image; this is the feedback loop. Should have avoided that.

Daylight Savings Time made its way back into the news again. No one finds themselves really surprised because DST proves divisive mostly because it is wholly conjectural or optional. People survived for millennia without a sense of measured time, although they knew it to be regular.

On the first level, DST provokes a challenge to federalism: do we let the states decide (states rights) or do we rely on centralized authority because this issue concerns all states (federalism)? It would be silly to have every state have its own time system, but letting the federal government define it seems even worse.

On another level, we have to face up to our hatred for nature. We hate ourselves because we hate anything which is not under our control. Culture is continuous through race and ethnicity, contiguous across history, organic in that it arises unplanned by daily events similar to how common law arises, and therefore, uncontrollable.

The human individualist seeks control, so much that he will engage in herd behavior in order to enforce that control. Mutual individualism produces collectivism. Collectivism produces that idea that we buy off the suffering non-producers with the wealth of the producers so that we can have “unity.”

Ironist contrarians of course hate organic culture because it deprives them of the power of their individualism. They want the individual to come first before culture, the “golden braid” of natural hierarchy, and reality itself, which offends their individualism by not being under their control.

DST is another human attempt to crush nature. We hate it because it rules us. We blame it for being awful to us at times, and for our mortality. We will do whatever we can to control nature symbolically because we fear it. And in the end, that rules us more than nature ever will.

Tags: control, daylight savings time, ironist contrarianism, nature