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Weekzones
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Different countries have timezones,
hence,
it might be midday here in London but it
could be any old time elsewhere in the
world. Geography forces upon us a social
demarcation yet again.
What about, in the true spirit of open-
source, having social weekzones. These
are differently phased
weeks, so that my
week isn't necessarily assumed to
coincide
with your week, and there is no absolute
week datum anymore.
The logic for who gets to be in which
weekzone could be entirely arbitrary, but
I
think it'd be interesting if some
expenditure of effort - or even accident
of
birth - were involved in who gets to be in
which weekzone.
It could be such that certain weekzones
become highly desirable (for no
canonical reason - where the 'original'
prime week started all that time ago is
entirely spurious) so that people even
aspire to marry into a fashionable or
respectable weekzone.
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But the notion of the "traditional" week, as I understand it in reality and within the context of the idea, is hugely ingrained in the fabric of modern society. Without the regular demarkation of time, in whatever size of increment, but definitely with mutually applied stop-start points, the world would, quite possibly, grind to a halt. The imposition of rigidity, however conceptual, on time, is one of the few things that stops people from considering alternative non "like an arrow" natures of time, therby lifting from people the tiresome burden of going barking mad in a pub car park. |
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That said, I do like the notion of the weekzone being applied on a person to person basis, rather than geographical, even if it would mean that society would be further compartmentalised. |
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I want to live in Saturday. |
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I suppose the easiest method of weekzone assignment would be to have everybody born on a Monday. This could be retroactively either by a massive programme of machine based calculation or by employing autistic people to do the necessary "what day is it now" calculations in their heads. Further, if everyone was born on a Monday, Monday's child would be good looking, graceful, unhappy, destined for great things, loving, hard working and gay, all of which might have implications for society and notions of self. |
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So different countries would operate on different weekzones?
And would I get two Saturdays when switching to Summer Time? |
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hippo, - no, countries already get the timezone demarcation thing. Weekzones, being that weeks themselves are an arbitrary construct, are arbitrarily distributed across the social spectrum rather than the geographical range. Us Sagittarians already get ten Saturdays each December anyway - people might start suspecting us of fiddling the books if we push for too many benefits. |
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