*Why this obsession with time?
Because marking the passage of time is something that marks us as humans. It is the lower animals, the brutes, and the outcasts who fail to mark their time on Earth. Who simply live into every hour of every day, as if it were interchangeable with every other. Like zombies. Like the lost, cursed to wander in the desert. As if there were no progression, no direction, no movement. It is both a Biblical curse and a sign of societal degeneracy to _fail to mark the time_.*
