Get Everything Done

"Chronemics" turns out to be the name for cultural attitudes to time. The subject addresses:

(1) all time(s) are not the same
(2) all times are social constructions
(3) the times humanity creates direct the way humanity lives.

"The way an individual perceives time and the role time plays in their lives is a learned perspective."

A summary at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronemics#Polychronic_Time

and explored nicely in this BBC documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fz6pl5xo5M

Perhaps this awareness could help us to see that Western-time is one construction amony many and that our culture's conception of time-as-money permeates how we approach living.

Thanks Michael, found this very interesting coming from a mixed culture family.

Thank you Erin.

I also found Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" chapter 8 interesting. Everyone around Ivan wants time to carry on as normal (lots of references to clocks and appointments) as Ivan reappraises how he has used his own time...

“An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length.”

- Virginia Woolf, "Orlando"