Buried Inside

Time As Surrogate Religion

Buried Inside


Hell-bent on standardization; 
on Cartesian deliverance. 
Time is the primary socializing tool. 
Indelibly imprinted and structurally biased. 
We are domesticated creatures of technical abstraction. 
If rationalism/reductionism is our religion, 
then time keeping is our benediction. 
Reified and ratified in fixed ideas and 
solid state circuitry. 
This baptism took place on the hinges 
of history by the faithful 
who made repression a cardinal requisite. 
By the faithful who made the timepiece as holy as the cross. 
Hell-bent on standardization: the wheel keeps turning and we all turn with it.