Friday, 22 April 2022
The time of feelings, moods, sensations, thoughts, desires, the 'stream' of experience is a time that is atomised, a succession of 'now's about whose interconnections one can only speculate - some believe them to be independent instants, others that they are made out of durations, or prehensive stretches. Thoughts of the subject as a kind of object naturally gravitate towards this kind of time, even at the cost of the subject itself. Historic time is a different animal altogether, and it reveals itself by way of a different kind of subject altogether, say a holistic one as against an atomic one. The experience is rarer, less easily accessed but far more profound. You can understand atomic time as a special phenomenon of holistic time, but the reverse doesn't work and only forces you to regard holistic time as an illusion. There is a latent striving towards an expanded time, but it is also frightening and so is turned away.
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