> “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote #JamesGleick in.. #Faster. . Given what we know about the variability of our time sense, it seems clear that information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. Society’s “activity rhythm” has never been so harried. Impatience is a contagion spread from gadget to gadget.
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#NicholasCarr #Rapidification #ActivityRhythm #Impatience

'... when someone is kind to another, is that because he or she has some #innate qualities within that lead to #kindness—or because some situational factors simply...allow for kind behaviors... people.. religious for intrinsic reasons were no more likely than others.. to help...10% of participants in the “late” condition stopped to help the stranger...'
At least 10% tend to be decent even if they are running late...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/201703/my-favorite-psychology-study
#GoodSamaritanStudy #faster #speed #activityrhythm

'... the vast majority of those who thought they were late did not stop to help. In other words, the perception of time pressure or “having limited time” resulted in behaviors incongruent to their education and career: the devotion to help others. Time pressure triggered these well-intentioned students to behave in ways that, upon reflection, they would find disgraceful. '
https://www.rightattitudes.com/2015/06/16/people-in-a-rush-are-less-likely-to-help-themselves/
#GoodSamaritanStudy #late #busy #hurried #faster #speed #TimePressure #activityrhythm

' “A compression of time characterizes the life of the century now closing,” wrote James #Gleick in his 1999 book Faster. Such compression characterized, as well, the preceding century. ”... information and communication technologies would have a particularly strong effect on our perception of time.. #speed with which we’re presented with new information and stimuli...our interactions with others.

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#NicolasCarr #JamesGleick #activityrhythm #workrhythm

"It is commonplace that the years between 1300 and 1650 saw within the intellectual culture of Western Europe important changes in the apprehension of time...Lewis Mumford makes suggestive claims in Technics and Civilization (1934), esp. pp. 12-18, "
The #ActivityRhythm of #NicolasCarr #BullshitJobs of #DavidGraeber and #WorkDiscipline of #EPThompson all take one to Lewis Mumford and the #clock I first read of in a #NeilPostman book.
https://libcom.org/library/time-work-discipline-industrial-capitalism-e-p-thompson

"An interesting development of this theme can be found in #LewisMumford 's The #TransformationsofMan (1957)." --
#DoraRussel .
We survived (barely) over 100 years of inhuman #activityrhythm . The #Bullshit

"Especially relevant to present-day problems is the.. contention that industrial organisation, by its very nature, gives rise to oligarchy or dictatorship.. tending to destroy democracy.. and to impose upon the individual pressures and restraints that prevent his full life as a human being.. leading to trivial pursuits and passivity.. collective #rage and #hysteria."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284
#BertrandRussel #IndustrialCivilization #HumanScale #HumanPace #workrhythm #activityrhythm

Reading #DavidGraeber in#bullshitjobs "concerning the clash between the morality of time and natural work rhythms, and the resentment it creates" made #NicolasCarr come to mind: " Our social milieu, too, influences the way we experience time. Studies suggest, write Droit-Volet and Gill, “that individuals match their time with that of others.” The “ #activityrhythm” of those around us alters our own perception of the passing of time."
- https://www.roughtype.com/?p=6143
#LewisMumford on #workrhythm too