ABSTRACT
One of the paradoxes of time is that we tend to experience it as natural or real even though evidence abounds of its constructed nature. Greenwich Mean Time persists as the axis around which time elsewhere on the globe is determined primarily because this arrangement, which signals the dominance of the West, is accepted by all nations. Clock-time has become tyrannical when the speed of communication has made space and time appear to shrink. The mechanical constancy of clock-time means that it is not supple enough for such processes as the gradual extension of the roots under the earth, the slow thickening of the bark and the cycle of leaves falling and new growth appearing. The pace and texture of life will no longer be determined by mechanistic time.
