Inspired by Michael Berube who was inspired by Jamie Berube
This is the post which inspired me.
Now, my question:
"Developmentally disabled people live commonly in a world without time, but no-one completely lives in a world without space."
Discuss with reference to three separate disciplines: science, social science and literature.
(This is the tripariate structure of the French academic system).
I am a little disturbed by Monsieur Berube's teaching of time. And especially the way he put it.
Jamie was much happier without it. And we were all happier people before the clocks and calendars came into our lives.
(I must observe my own biases there. I experience time as being my enemy and myself as a victim of it. I am well aware that it has become socially and economically necessary to the vast majority of people).
I know this comes off as being politically incorrect, specifically in the primitivist stream.
"Time is our enemy. We are all better off without it".
How would your world change if it were timeless in the manner of many developmentally disabled persons?
It would sure be better to live without conscious awareness of hours, days, weeks, months and years.
That's the distinction - perhaps the ESSENTIAL distinction - between developmental and geopolitical psychology.
The former focuses on time.
The latter on space.
And actually there are disabilities where the perception of space is severely impaired. That is probably the more severe impairment than the lack of time, at least as I perceive it.
(This is sort of like: "Blindness isolates you from things - deafness from people." Helen Keller).
Are there other people (ie: without some form of disability) who are not essentially organised by time?
Or is time something we can never escape from?
Here is something to think about. The relationship between Freya, Eve and Bodil certainly changed my thinking about time and showed me how time is intrinstically linked to change.
Can we stop time? Bodil writes to Freya/Steffi about it.
Of course the feeling of never being able to escape makes me feel hopeless, and of course is cognitively distorted thinking in the manner of those who happen to be depressed or anxious.