City life’s demand for punctuality suppresses instinctive inner-directed impulses

Evidence

Punctuality, calculability, exactness are forced upon life by the complexity and extension of metropolitan existence and are not only most intimately connected with its money economy and intellectualistic character. These traits must also color the contents of life and favor the exclusion of those irrational, instinctive, sovereign traits and impulses which aim at determining the mode of life from within, instead of receiving the general and precisely schematized form of life from without. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9758

Categorization

• XREF: The exclusions of irrational, instinctive impulses in favor of an external time-schedule anticipates Fromm’s and the Frankfurt School’s account of inner nature being dominated by external rational order.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does the sov—typal inner-directed impulse survive or mutate under digital metronomes and scheduling?