“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?” (111)
The first two are pretty easy to answer from a biological stand point. A race known as Homo sapiens were born and now we work to keep them alive. Of course there are also predators and other random things that make our bodies stop functioning. Death is inevitable, unless you’re looking at it from a religious point of view. Time on the other hand is more difficult to understand because it is discussed much les than living or dying.
Our obsession with time could be the evolution of our natural sarcadian rhythms. We along with all living beings run on an about 24 hour cycle that determines when we eat, when we sleep, when we want to help our species continue. If we take it to the next level, It’s basically time. Some people would suggest however that there is more to it than just time. Why do we work so hard to keep track of something that is constant and yet ever changing? Are we really just counting down the days until our ultimate demise? What good is it all any way? I don’t have the answer and I don’t expect any body that reads this post to have it ether. This is just one of those things people will be pondering until we can get a computer to work out the answer as 42. I will confidently say that digital watches on the other hand, are a symbol of our technology and just wanting to show off.
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