It’s About Time!

and Monopolies monopolizing each and every minute of it!  BM’s (business models) objectives aims to occupy time so it is occupied by anyone but ourselves.  

Take schools, for example. A typical day is to see kids at a bus stop early, blurry-eyed standing around darkened corners well before sunrise in October wearing black hoodies.  

High school kids (at least) then have 5-6 classes lasting 50 to 90 minutes of mostly sitting.  Sit down, shut up and listen to lectures that mostly won’t help you today or ever.  Tick Tock, look at the clock, you are only getting older. 

Lunch is a tight 25 minutes to drive and get take out. (Yes, it might be nicer to bring a lunch, but no time for that eh?) 

After school activities include jobs, sports, family, commitments, work from work- lasting into late evenings.

Don’t forget about home-work on top of that.  More work added to a 8-10 hour day.  Heavily pushed AP classes add even more time suck-age. 

Meanwhile, kids want to stay connected to friends. So more time is then occupied by screens riddled with ads taking up more time.

Many kids then stay up late in order to find time to chat- to connect- you know, to be a kid.  Precious time to share or just be alone.  Awake and buzzing from the day into wee hours of the morn.

Alarm rings- stumble to the kitchen- try to come to life- blurry eyed heading out the door in order to stand around that same darkened corner with others sharing similar experiences.  

Semester after semester; year after year; hoping to reach that what? Friday? Holiday? Retirement?  Death?  

Meanwhile kids are suffering needlessly with superfluous conditioning by monopolies monopolizing their time- occupy kids minds so they don’t get to.  Cradle to grave- it’s about time.