Geriatric park
I was first thinking of writing about a new axiomatic way of understanding Time but then I figured out that the only interesting question was to polemicize about Time relatively to human being. As said Jacque Prévert,
there is a good God for flies
a good God for mites
for swallow there is no good God
they don't need one.
So, we don't need to understand anything that would sleep in the bed of absoluteness, it's more interesting to make the most of our freedom and to observe how Nature and Life spin around ourself. What is an old person ? Let's take randomly a domain where the occidental culture is said to grow older : Jazz. Jazz is often seen as being a dead music as Latin and correctly orthographied French are said to be dead languages. Look at those grand-daddies of the Jazz who are finishing their life persevering in dusty 50's swinging styles, rhythmed by a so called evil drummer, who's braking the tempo, each day slower, slower. You're getting too old buddy, you're slowing down.
In Jazz, where are the vital forces, the élan of the youthfulness ? There ? No this is just a stupid trick for teenagers, the undertaker's assistant playing on his strange coffin is just there to emphasize the contrast and the old baby to amuse the public... This old fool mimics a kid but he's physically 65, it's emulation, nothing more than a clown. It's not dealing with The Breath we are looking for. Han Bennink, hushed up ?
Drug use in some case, like hashish, could also affect the perception of time by slowing it down. Old person might just have a metabolism which is degrading itself into something near junkie's one. Take Jacques Chirac, all informed citizen knows that he might be using amphetamines to put up with his big mount of failures and to help it growing still higher. All the former French presidents are dead, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's wrapping is still exposed at the European Parliament but since the french referendum on the European constitution of march 2005, he's dead inside. In the meantime, when they were president, they were all abusing of all kind of drugs, nationalism being the most efficient one in France. They were old, they were drugged and they were living in a slow-motioned world. So they had the feeling that each very minute was everlasting and enjoyed their presidential life subjectively more than a septennial mandate. It's nothing more than a relativistic effect, a proof that old persons are curving the space-time more than healthy middle-aged adults. Which is a good mean of convincing you to live near your grand-parents to take advantage of their dilative effect on time.
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