This class may not have been the most exciting in the world, but it brought up some interesting points. For instance the fact that today we are detached from the culture and traditions of the world that use to be so important. For example, talking about produce. I had never thought about the fact that back in the day people could only eat the foods that were in season. So, when produce started to be imported from other parts of the country with the invention of things like trains people started to be detached from the concept of season produce. Then Professor O’Malley brought up our changed perspective of time. Back in the day people told time by roosters and then that evolved into people telling time based on things like the time the bank would close. All of these were not finite and universal concepts of time because everyone told time based on different things. In today’s society, we have the luxury of having a standard measurement of time. This makes us first of all detached from the way of life from the path. Even though we see this as positive it also causes our busy lives to be controlled by this thing we call time, that isn’t even tangible.

We allow our lives to be controlled by time because that is just how it evolved and everyone is doing it and everyone expects us to use this standardized concept of time. In today’s day in age, everyone would think you were crazy if you said, ” Oh I’m not late I tell time based on when my mail comes.” When you think about it it’s crazy how time literally runs our lives and we let it because society expects us to. Do you think we, as a society, would be able to function if we went back in time and adopted the ways of nonstandard time?