gozfarb on Nostr: I was reading an alternate take from a historian, can't find the article now but it ...

I was reading an alternate take from a historian, can't find the article now but it might've been a book, where they made the point that people did not conceive of time the same in the pre-industrial era.

So our expectation of drastic change and progress or shift are really just influenced by a, broadly speaking, incredibly new shift in both our conception of culture across time and of time itself by way of clocks and clock-based schedules rather than natural rhythms and relatively static lifestyles across generations. I'm sure mass media plays an insane role in all of that as well.