> time is a necessary convention for virtually any complex society It wasn't that people in the "unclocked" regime have no precision or scale in their use of t

> time is a necessary convention for virtually any complex society It wasn't that people in the "unclocked" regime have no precision or scale in their use of time and synchrony, it was that the very nature of the (subjective) world changes when you change your (subjective) structure and orientation in time. Psychological models of time vary between cultures and individuals and have a deep and pervasive effect. For example, some people organize their past and future along a line going left-right out in front of them (the past goes to the left, the future goes to the right, the present is in front) while other people have their past behind them and the future spreads out in front of them. That simple difference, having your past and future in front in a line vs. being "inline" on your past-future timeline, has a profound effect on psychology and culture. These are just two common styles, there is a vast diversity on how people organize their subjective structure of temporal events.