I’m increasingly convinced the ancients did not think of, or experience, time the way we do, as a kind of one-way street spatial dimension. It was a flux with a material quality. Like a river flowing through you. Or like weather.
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Yeah I’ve read that, though clearly it made a much bigger impression on you. I thought it was a bit weak.
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The writer is deliberately whimsical and annoying, but there's something really powerful underneath it. The civilization of time might be more dramatic/significant than the civilization of space. Maybe I should write an essay 🤔
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This is why something like “bitcoin time” (i.e. living in a state which changes on average every 10 mins) is novel. Time accounting expressed as simply the block height changes perception. I attempted this over an afternoon. By the end it was a mediation.
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