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I can tell by the clock on the wall…

By Jerry ⋅ June 17, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Isn’t it strange that no matter how many of our appliances and gadgets come with clocks displaying the time to us in all of their screaming LED glory, most of us still can’t function without a few wall clocks hanging in our homes or offices. One would thing that these necessities of the past would have long ago been relegated to the same place in our hearts that is held by our first Nintendo or Atari game system, or perhaps that one special place held by the first time any of us held our first real-live LP record in our hands.

(For those of you who don’t get those references, don’t worry.  It just means that you’re too young.  As a matter of fact, you’re probably too young to be reading this..  Now go out and play!)

Wall clocks are just something that we as a society seem to need to feel comfortable.  Perhaps they lend a feeling of control to our lives, or one of order, but whatever the reason, we can’t live without them.  It doesn’t matter if that clock is a Mega-mart special or something from Howard Miller’s collection.  we couldn’t care less if the thing is old and dented just as long as it keeps proper time.

In a way clocks are a symbol of our mastery over our environment, but in another they are a constant reminder that time is the one thing we can never truly control.  I wonder if we as human beings are simply trying to beat that clock at all times.  We don’t need it to remind us of TV shows, appointments or anything else really, computers, DVR’s, cell phones and PDA’s do all of that for us now.

There’s a post about the constancy of clocks over at the clocks blog that you might find interesting.  I know that I did.

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