A Matter of Time
We didn’t used to need governments to tell us the time. For millennia the sun did it for us, enabling our ancestors to get thru the day.
Medieval clocks added some precision. But their main “improvement” (if we want to call it that) on the ancient sundial was they enabled us to tell time at night.
Not that many people cared. In those days, most of them were wise (and tired) enough to use darkness as a signal to sleep.
It wasn’t till the 19th century, when time-pieces proliferated, that businesses, households, and personal pockets began acquiring clocks… and becoming slaves to them.
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