Time draws near

What a plethora of metaphors inhabits that title!

SOmewhat arbitrarily I'll be thinking less about "time" in the near future, and more about time, i.e. deadlines. Leaving aside the philosophical problems, time seems to represent people's response to patterns in the world, patterns of repetition & newness. (Thanks Mic.k) One response - perhaps not solely my own - to newness is anxiety and one solution to anxiety is, perhaps, to repeat a solution, or to seek a repetition, a familiarity in the newness.

This is not a question of imposing "order" (time) on "chaos" (kaos); chaos is as much a human superposition as time. Time represents a comforting order; other orders are not precluded, perhaps simple not recognised, or, indeed, required.

Technology & time, both responses to the world. Insofar as technology creates repetition and reduces anxiety it could be said to create time. The common complaint about technology, that it steals time, reflects the fragmentation and destruction of predictable orders