In highly differentiated societies, in which everyone is linked to everyone
else in long chains of interdependence, what in ‘simple’ societies is an external
restraint – the necessity to obey certain norms which the mighty in society take
upon themselves to enforce – is transformed into spontaneous loyalty to an
internalized rule, into self-restraint, and it becomes difficult to behave otherwise
than as the norm dictates. A long historical course following the alternating
events of the civilization process leads to the apparent paradox that an abstract
concept such as time can manage to exercise so great a control over personal
and collective life.
Simonetta Tabboni
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