Oh sure - call it “cognitive homeostasis” or something like that, as a baseline thing. But I do think we socialize people to be obstinate, for a variety of rea

Oh sure - call it “cognitive homeostasis” or something like that, as a baseline thing. But I do think we socialize people to be obstinate, for a variety of reasons and in a variety of ways, some of which are: 1) How often has someone told you what to do, and been more right, versus times they’ve been more wrong, or missing something about your situation, or lying about their motivations and goals, such that what they were telling you wasn’t actually what you should do? 2) Totally makes sense to me that towns, etc, would have a history of the central authority showing up and saying “change like this”, and only awhile later finding out why that was bad for them. 3) AFAIK, most of the time the experience a town would have with a central authority is that authority showing up to take something the town doesn’t want to give. So you put all that together, and it makes sense to me that people would resist something like centralized time keeping “just because”.