It is possible that the root of all human violence is a series of misconception about time. For example, in order to dramatize some past trauma you have to fail to differentiate it from the present, so that its "feelings" are being played over you in the present moment even though it occurred some time back. For another example, believing that you can achieve large rewards in status or wealth by actions measured in hours is a sort of collapsed sense of the flow of things through time. Even suicide depends on the notion that one's time and the continuation of personal confusion will end with a single violent act. This is often not the case.

It is clear that time itself is difficult to fully understand. Most of us skip the issue by hanging on to the present as well as we can. But the odd thing is perhaps that a lot mnor eof our creative energies are wrapped up in the past and in the future than in the moment.

By which hangs many a tale, I am sure...


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