{"id":17023,"date":"2019-01-23T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17023"},"modified":"2019-01-22T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:58:59","slug":"communication-error-tomorrow-tomorrow-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/01\/23\/communication-error-tomorrow-tomorrow-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Error<\/em>: Tomorrow, tomorrow, and today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had a dream that I dreamed a dream; how awful. I woke up next Wednesday, or maybe it was last Tuesday, or is it today? Sometimes existence feels like one long afternoon, doesn\u2019t it? It\u2019s like a bad day you\u2019ve had your whole life. No\u2014it is time\u2026 to wake up. Time to finish those assignments, time to begin those very same assignments, and time to wish for more time. The time I refer to is, of course, the one that has a charmingly abusive way of trapping us, freeing us, enslaving us, and letting us go, but where does one rotation end and the next begin? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is time? \u201cWhat a silly question,\u201d some would reply. It\u2019s the thing we spend, the thing we save, the thing we earn, and so on. Open your wallet; can you spare any time? Funny, that doesn\u2019t make sense, does it? Yet, somehow, most of us divide our days, our school schedules, and our lives into this time commodity that we can never quite afford. But why do we wish to buy time when we already own it? Time is yours; it cannot be bought or sold. If it could, why isn\u2019t it in your wallet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Communication Error<\/em> is a column in every issue of Nexus<\/em> looking at communication issues.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Let us make use of chronemics, the study of time in communication. Can either monochronic (M) time, or polychronic (P) time help us understand what time is? I\u2019m afraid we don\u2019t have time to explore that question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we begin to feel overwhelmed about our time\u2019s crippling debt, when we wish to cross over from this moment and arrive at the next, when we can finally enjoy that next moment, what are we stepping over?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Saint Augustine put it, \u201cWhat\u2026 is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it\u2026 I do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When time isn\u2019t ours, the afternoons just keep going. It makes you contemplate either taking a nap or having another cup of coffee; a nap, of course, being the kind of sleep that you never want to wake up from\u2014the kind that frees you from having to dream about dreams\u2014and coffee being a giant cup of nihilistic existentialism. Whoever once said that what doesn\u2019t kill you only makes you stronger forgot to add the caveat: \u201calthough only if it doesn\u2019t leave you for dead\u2014beyond possible repair.\u201d It\u2019s funny how that last part is fairly important, isn\u2019t it? I suppose they never had the time to finish that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shall we count to 10? What will happen when we reach 11? And how long will it take us to get there? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a dream that I dreamed a dream; how awful. I woke up next Wednesday, or maybe it was last Tuesday, or is it today? Sometimes existence feels like one long afternoon, doesn\u2019t it? It\u2019s like a bad day you\u2019ve had your whole life. No\u2014it is time\u2026 to wake up. Time to finish those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-january-23-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17024,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions\/17024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}