Speed of clock

Inside CPU’s, clocks. They are instrumental to squeeze max performance out of those chip set. We want train, plane and automobile to arrive on time and on point at the speed of clock.

On the football field, except for Time-Out, the clock and the score board nudge the ball forward, most pressing and precious are those final few seconds. In life, off the field and off the computer, seasons mark time passing. Ground Hog Day.

Presidents take an oath every four years. Their administration clock starts right after the applause. A race against the National Debt clock (which by the way, rattles anyone who cares to look) and our internal biological clock, life expectancy and passages.

Well, except for Jimmy Carter, who seemed to have operated on a different time zone or time-out, if not eternity.

“Today, you will be with me in Paradise” says Jesus to the repentant thief.

By the time all blood drained out, eternity starts, for the lack of a better adverb, eternally (Infinity, like eternity, is a mental construct. No one has ever grasped it yet or come back to tell).

My high-school psychology teacher talked about “subjective time” vs “objective time” i.e. when we emotionally invest in waiting, let’s say, for a date to show, time seems to stretch. We want to speed up the clock (then out of ambivalence, we don’t).

Kairos is when we are lost in the zone, no longer lives under Chronos (clock) domain and spell. Artists ignore hunger or sleep to “complete” their pieces.

In a Clocking society, where time is money, we are subjected to and enslaved to Chronos e.g. waiting in line, first comes, first served, prologue, epilogue, Alpha, Omega, begin and end.

In the Orient, people entertain ghost e.g. burning paper money and josh stick or offering food to the deceased who are “home for the holidays”.

With AI, we are forced to operate at the speed of AI thought: If A then B, then C. Bill Gates will accordingly have to update his book: “At the speed of AI thought” as Ads compressed, lives measured by nano seconds.

“Today, you shall be with me in Paradise”, rewind, pause, lip-read (throat and tongue dry). Two unbelievers heard it, then a few days later, two followers confirmed it (via non-verbal table manner e.g. breaking the bread – motoring cues undiscernible yet by today’s AI…).

Greenwich Village of our Global Village is chosen as base line e.g. born at certain time EST, died PST with the hope of a re-incarnate life or eternal life, Paradise regained, Lunar New Year and garden variety of cults and sects. All compete for attention and supremacy. In Japan, there has been a call and sanction of Unification Church.

Globalization meant inevitable conflicts. The League of Nations (UN) and rules of law (international) barely hold. Notice: every time we see government in transition, people are treated as pawn (from Iranian hostages to Israeli hostages, from bombing of Cambodia to peace in Paris)

Let’s say, in Lost Angels city where Paradise can be regained (where “strategically, firefighters were pre-deployed for the worst of scenarios i.e. hillside burning”). Real-life version of Hollywood in Hollywood e.g. the Towering Inferno (from John Wayne to Steve McQueen).

Life imitating Arts. Artists donate to save lives. Live-Aid for Today. For America. Charity finally begins at home (World Kitchen in Rose Bowl arena). As it should. The West operates by the clock.

Alexis De Tocqueville says” In America no one bothers about what was done before his time i.e. with no concept of life (or lives) previous or follow. Robber Baron? What’s that. Ponzi? Who is that!

“Living for Today, yuh huh.” unlike people of other cultures, who live one life then the next, in circle, time and eternity intersected and converged from which the concept of territorial integrity which China and Russia are currently trumping could be used as pre-text for war. Paradise mind you is not geo-centric. It’s a promise albeit more real for the faithful and hopeful.

There exists a different dimension of time (since we seem to be made not just to convenient others) and that is most sacred of all: we are free to make choices, have more options and nuances than just simply binary. From the vantage of the future looking back we’re better each day, wiser each moment, and communicate more clearly and accurately as we accrue more data.

We don’t live or die by clock speed alone (even biological clock can be extended per exercise and nutrition). By wisdom of the word, repentance and remorse, we too shall be with Him (eternal Present) – like that cellmate thief.

President Carter seemed to “get” it, by his insistence to operate out of norm e.g. not “four more years”, but “a lifetime more” post-Presidency. With his passing, we all got a glimpse at exhibit A (Alt) to current convention e.g. walking down Pennsylvania Avenue.

What’s wrong with putting up a solar panel on the roof, or to barn-raise for poor people in the Deep South? We need to strategically pre-deploy an Army of builders to re-construct an alternate ending, a director’s cut for our on-going sad saga, an elegy for the city on the Hill.

In so doing, Today, we can experience partial Paradise. At the speed of AI clock. As long as we all “chip” in, squeeze out or ooze out more performance per person. It takes a village – with AI help, local and global, to educate young guys/girls, Afghan or Austrian. Or else, by default, we’ll see an anti-social Century, when individualism and ideology reign, without the need for neighbors and friends (who need them when we’ve got the phone and apps for every conceivable scenario 24/7 tic toc).

Like on the field, those last few seconds might decide the outcome of the game. Ours.