The one I actually used:
“With the advent of modernity time has vanished from social space. It is recorded solely on measuring instruments (clocks) – isolated, functionally separated. Lived time loses its form and social interest – with the exception, that is, of time spent working.”
Henri Lefebvre from The Production of space.
(Lefebvre 1999:95)
Technology has revolutionised everyday life by making activities more convenient, easier, saving time (and moreover, money). But has it improved one’s quality of life?
It seems as though the more technology is woven into daily life, the more one is expected to cram into each day – emphasis is put doing as many things (work, chores, activities) as possible, as quickly as possible; with less importance put on how well these things are done or the enjoyment of doing these things.
The result is definitely not an enriched lifestyle, instead the gregarious nature of humans is sacrificed: people pass each other by; missing out on meaningful encounters; distracted by all the pressures and demands that society expects to be simultaneously balanced.
Furthermore, people are becoming more and more detached from nature, that phenomenon which is so essential to human survival. Within today’s artificially duplicated spaces in which each day spent, a relationship with nature is replaced with standardised predictability, after all, “to say nature, is to say spontaneity” (Lefebvre 1999:70).
These problems amount, essentially, to a loss of sense of self. People have been segregated from the natural state in which to express themselves.
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