Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib.

Friends, I'm sure a lot of you are asking right now,

what is it that we've done that's led us up to the moment we're in now?

And what's coming?

Rather than try to project the content of what's coming as some sort of answer that I know,

in other words, instead of trying to create a prophecy or prediction,

and rather than trying to trace some sort of exact path to this moment, I think it can be useful to think about time itself.

In other words, we have to contend not just with the contents of history, but about the force of history, not just what will come, but how the future moves

towards us so we can understand how each of our actions can connect with what will come.

And this episode is going to be all about time. What time is. It's just a small contribution to imagining time and understanding time, with the aim of helping us not just become subjects of time, but instead altering our relationship to it.

To do that requires a long view of the past and the future, sure.

That's what standard academic and pseudo-spiritual influencers will offer and pop science,

nature writers with their withering appeals to think of geological time,

but really only as a quick thought exercise before we just get on with our non-geological day.

And of course there's all that mindfulness and wellness industry stuff going on

which tells you to connect with the present moment,

not really examining what the present moment is composed of.

I wrote an essay almost 15 years ago now, and I think it's still helpful.

It has a palindromic title in mid-time, which will make more sense as I go through it.

I've changed that essay a little bit here, but not enough to reflect everything I've learned

about time since I wrote it. So this is a sort of sourdough starter for the thoughts on time

to come in future episodes of this podcast.

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