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%COMPETITION FOR TIME 780504
In a competitive society time is perceived as a
scarce resource to be budgeted among the unnumbered
competitors for one's attention. If the competitive
society has exclusive tendencies each competitor for time
tends to demand an exclusive claim upon one's attention---
and implicitly promises human fulfillment if exclusive
rights to one's time is granted. Rarely do members of an
exclusive-competitive society experience encouragement to
express themselves in the eternal-now of intimate personal
relationships and fulfill themselves in balanced
activities which are expressive of their unique integrity.
Thus members of an exclusive-competitive society
experience time as a battleground of conflict between
competing claimants upon their time---rather than as a
relational matrix within which they express/fulfill their
unique selves/potentials. The management of time thus
becomes a technical task, rather than being an affective
opportunity for self expression. The self is confronted
with the task of balancing mutually exclusive claims
against each other. The self is then not the natural
development of internal intuitions, instincts, insights,
desires, feelings, inclinations, and potentialities in
spontaneously chosen personal relationships.
The competitive society makes claims upon each
member's time. The competitive society which tends to be
exclusive naturally tends to be a possessive society---
concerned with definitions of who has the right to control
the use/abuse of objects, people, ecosystems, natural
resources, air, land, water, inventions, ideas. By
natural extension the possessive society occasions the
notion of the possession of rights to people's time---the
right to control future fragments of a person's time. In
this way people become fragmented and unable to develop
their integrity within the eternal now's of spontaneous
relationships.
The conception of time and of the nature of being
human are interwoven strands of a culture. Each holds the
other in it's place. When time is viewed mathematically
as a measurable/possessable quantity people are perceived
as participants in patterns of cause and effect. However,
when time is experienced as the eternal now of fulfilling
relationships the participants and the patterns of cause
and effect are not the central elements of existential
reality.
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