Friends, we need to revamp the calendar. Our years start arbitrarily, based on "the sun," which people rarely see anymore. And months, they're a scam, a way to keep peasants tilling and monks distilling. Those people didn't have social media; they barely had vellum media. Weeks, days, hours, minutes-especially minutes-are just more mechanisms for keeping humans in thrall ultimately based on astronomy, astrology's lesser sibling. In the globalized information environment we currently enjoy, we should and must construct better timescales. I propose some new terminology.
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