The Loss of Time

If you go back far enough into kind of pre-industrial Europe, I'm absolutely convinced at least from what I understand from my reading that people would not have felt busy most of the time. There wasn't this idea that time is moving and you can either keep up with the conveyor belt or you can sort of use it badly and get left behind. It was almost as if the time was embedded in the activity rather than time as something against which you measure the activity. You really need to create that idea of time as an external thing in order to get all the problems that we have with time. We've got to try to use as well as we can while it's here.