Time Is a Political Thing

In 18 94, a young french anarchist called marshal bordan blew himself up outside the greenwich royal observatory. He wanted to resist what he thought was the tyranny of centralized control by symbolically and physically stopping the clock that made it all work. In 19 70, a clock was buried under a park in osaka that'll run for five thousand years in a time capsule. And there's a mechanical pendulum clock being built in texas right now that's going to run for ten thousand years. They're all helping us resist that sense of hurry sickness that's probably not doing us much good. I mean, clocks have brought great positive change to the world but they're all so