The meaning of life and timing devices

There is no meaning. I see the people running to and fro in their cars all in a hurry to get nowhere. Oh yeah, most are going to a cubicle doing this and that out of survival instinct. But there is no meaning. I like to get up at 4:00 AM and watch the local news and the traffic reports. As the morning goes on there are more wrecks and congestion for people rushing somewhere to do things at a certain time collaborating with either an electronic or mechanical timing device.

Bosses have been told and responsible people agree that you must obey the timing device. Well of course they should or anarchy would set in. But the farmer uses a mechanical device, the most accurate one in the world, the sun. City folk use watches to catch planes, make appointments and generally be required to show up at a device marker.

Now it is important that we all synchronize our timing devices so we can all be on the same page. Then we all agree for the most part that we will adjust our timing device twice a year by an hour one way or another. I am told this is so bankers and politicians can get the ignorant populace to change their timing devices so they can go golfing a few extra holes in the afternoon. Everybody accepts the changing of the timing device without question and just change them.

Farmers don't give a damn except if they have children in schools or need parts at the part store which has changed their timing device. I swore when I retired I would throw my watch away, but you can't because of them damn doctors.

Oh yeah you can tell me how important time is for navigation and appointments, but you can't tell me why they decide to change the timing devices twice a year. Some dumb politician a few years back even changed the timing of the change as it would save energy. It was a lie, the sun don't change, and neither does your biological clock say that on this day I will change so you better change the timing devices.

One day people will look back on this time and think of us as flat Earthers. While claiming an energy crisis and peak oil, we forgot to use the information highway infrastructure and work from home. It took Eisenhower four years to build the Interstate highway system, now it takes the idiocracy four years to build a single mix master.

Welcome to the Idiocracy.