What is time good for if it can be wasted.
What is time good for? Oh, you have heard it said, people think time is some scarce commodity to share sparingly. The clock mimics our internal cycles. In that sense time may be the perfect metaphor for our existence. "His mind is ticking like clock." Or more contemporarily, vibrating. I worked in the IT section at Corrections Canada for a period of about one year. I had the opportunity to chat informally with a prison psychoanalyst who explained that prisoners are watched and there are observations to be made of their behaviour. Things like the expectancy of a drug delivery would likely spur milling around and suspicious meetings and communications. That was intel to be used to tighten security at the visitors area. You don't have to be a prison psych to know you can actually observe people behavioural patterns co-relative to times. Whichever time we are in we may have to acknowledge the role time setting implies to the overall situation. What is more, sleep, work a...