Time scarcity alienates people from their preferred selves regardless of free time

Evidence

As confirmed by qualitative time use studies, this feeling occurs independently of the quantity of free time resources and thus can only be interpreted as an experience of alienation in the sense of Ödön von Horváth’s bon mot: “I’m actually a quite different person, I just never get around to being him.” I concluded from this that the time structures of the acceleration society get people “to will what they do not will,” that is, to pursue, of their own volition, courses of action that they do not prefer from a temporally stable perspective. Therefore, the normative criteria of the kind of critique of time aimed at here are delivered by individuals themselves. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 838

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rising depression may be a reaction to unfulfillable acceleration expectations. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 110; Pathology in time is judged from within society, not by external ethical standards. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 150; Time scarcity is cultural and psychological, not just measurable — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 268 (+2 more)