Deeply internalized time patterns can only change through long, violent reeducation.

Evidence

The high degree of internalization of time patterns is therefore also responsible for the fact that the temporal dispositions of actors can often be adjusted to new structural conditions only through a long and generally violent process of reeducation, as E. P. Thompson made clear in his celebrated work on the “new dispensation” of time in the lives of workers during early industrialization. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 102

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Thompson’s time-discipline thesis the reader may build on, and resonates with Foucault-style disciplinary reeducation themes from other reading. — connects to: Pauses in time are often the only thing that can precipitate change — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 68

Broader Connections

• Pauses in time are often the only thing that can precipitate change #contradicts (0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 68