There have been a lot of perspectives on time through human history. The Mayans were very gifted astronomers, and built their temples such that the sun would s

There have been a lot of perspectives on time through human history. The Mayans were very gifted astronomers, and built their temples such that the sun would shine exactly through a small portal at the top of the temple on the equinoxes. Christian basilicas and Jewish temples had similar timekeeping functions. The Greek and Roman pagans saw time as turbulent and cyclical, subject to the caprice of the gods. The pre-modern, Christian worldview saw time as a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end, but also as a vertically-structured fractal of cycles within cycles, and our orientation within was ascending upwards to an eternity outside time and space. The Protestant fathers saw the linear progression of time forwards towards salvation as the true content of the gospel — that our orientation is forwards, towards the future. Some Maori saw our orientation in time as backwards, that we walk with our back towards the impenetrable future, with the past visible in front of us. None of these, however, saw time as an infinitely critiqueable, totally relative social construct with no given reality outside of humanly mutable, intersubjective power relations. This makes the author of the article, in my sincere opinion, the “whitest” of them all.