Monday, August 25, 2014

Time, Politics, Locality

Annals indicate that social Time is localized for the earliest humans, e. g. Northern Hemisphere winter is Southern Hemisphere summer; night in Asia is daytime in America, etc.  Now, technology has standardized those differences, e. g. room temperature of 72 regardless of the season; lamplight at 3 AM, etc.  Likewise, Time itself has become globalized, as is perhaps best evinced by the recent development that timekeeping devices are now functions of international telecommunications systems, in which, e. g. one cannot even set one's clock at an arbitrary time anymore.  Similarly, if Politics is local, then the locality is now the entire planet, and no longer tribal, civic, or even merely national anymore.  But, even the earliest localized temporal phenomena are manifestations of more pervasive processes, i. e. of Astronomical forces governing the relations between Earth, Sun, and Moon.  So, likewise, the context of the globalization of Politics may exceed the tabula rasa of Political Empiricism and its Atomistic concept of Society.    

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