Calendar reforms fail because internalized time patterns resist political imposition.
Evidence
It is not a coincidence that political upheavals have again and again played out as struggles over the determination of the calendar (something easily demonstrated by the history of the establishment of the Gregorian calendar) and that new holders of power often seek to cement their position by introducing a new one: for instance, at the beginning of modernity in the new time of the revolutionary calendar of 1793 or in Stalin’s efforts at calendar reform. The fact that both attempts at reform ultimately failed makes strikingly clear again just how much inherited time structures and perspectives become, so to speak, second nature to actors. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 102
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: The failure of imposed calendars (French revolutionary, Stalinist) as evidence that time patterns harden into ‘second nature’ speaks directly to the trees-as-stubborn-infrastructure angle of the grafting essay.
- recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Externally imposed institutions fail when they contradict socially embedded ways of doing things. — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 131; New regimes impose new calendars to cement power, but such reforms usually fail. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 102
Broader Connections
- Externally imposed institutions fail when they contradict socially embedded ways of doing things.
#corroborates(0.88) — Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth, Institutional Bricolage and Commoning…, 131