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Chapter 2
Connections
Most modern folk tend to think of time and space as being an immutable part
of reality, something that cannot possibly be changed or altered in any way, and the
20 th century American culture is no exception to the rule. Moderns tend to talk
faddishly about the importance of ”being in the present” but usually lay all their
money, time, and efforts on ideas of the future. They put money into IRA’s, invest
in stocks, and save for their children’s college funds. Additionally, 20 th century folk
have a tendency to worry and depress themselves about future events, becoming
psychologically and physically sick over the upcoming nuclear war, entropy, the
inevitable economic depression, and the decay of society and disappearance of social
mores. Americans, as well as members of many other industrialized nations, live for
the future, and this is their reality.
Cultures which have continued to place more importance on past events than
on the future are often considered “backwards” or ‘primitive” by modern standards,
and anyone who seriously proposes that the modern concepts of linear time and
three-dimensional space may not be the only form of reality is deemed by the masses
to be living in a fantasy world rather than in “true” reality. Since the onset of the
“Age of Science,” society has become rigidly “reality oriented” not realizing that,