Cultures solve the mismatch of mortal life and endless world time with sacred time.

Evidence

In almost all developed cultures the problem of reconciling this discrepancy is solved by the introduction of a fourth level of time through the notion of a sacred time. This “holy time” over arches the linear time of life and history, establishes its beginning and its end, and sublates life history and world history in a common, higher, and, so to speak, timeless time. … In Christian life, for instance, the time of life and the time of the world are brought together in such a way that both aim toward a future end of the world in the final judgment. In contrast to the linear, quantitative profane time that belongs to the immanent world and everyday (“work day”) life, sacred time has a timeless, cyclical, qualitative character and belongs to another or higher world. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 98

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows chapter 3’s theme of secular immortality driving experiential acceleration via a lost fourth time level. — connects to: Life and its cultural forms are fundamentally in tension — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837; Mass culture abolishes the individual’s lived history, reducing life to disposable instants — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 185; Sacred time resolves the mismatch between finite lifetimes and unlimited world time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 98
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Life and its cultural forms are fundamentally in tension #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837
• Mass culture abolishes the individual’s lived history, reducing life to disposable instants #contradicts (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 185