Time is the curse of the self aware.
Time as we humans know it has so little significance to 'unaware' animals like dogs or cats, Sure domesticated animals pick up learned behaviors/habituation to certain times , feeding etc. from the regularity with which their owners act. Other than that an animal knows to sleep when its dark, awake when it's light and to eat when it's hungry.
Human's self awareness and natural curiosity caused early civilizations to begin to investigate natural phenomena such as the tide, changes in weather (Seasons) and the movement of the stars.
As civilizations developed, as did our understanding of time. Time begun to play a much more important role in society with the introduction of calendars and crude clocks developed from observations of nature( sundials, water clocks etc.).
I think the point i'm attempting to make from this is that due to the awareness of time, human life appears to have become much more hectic (everything has a deadline nowadays). While some might argue that returning to classic time keeping methods (i.e the grumbling of your stomach) might benefit humankind in the long run it would also cripple our world as we know it, so as of now unless someone can create a better system we're STUCK with Persian minuets and seconds.
someone should have warned early man
IT'S A TRAP!
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