Wow...

...speechless...the sheer stupidity...bourgeois leisure time coughs up another intellectualloid hairball...wow...

The 28 Hour Day
A New Clock for a New Age
(Thanks to Steve Czaban for the heads up.)

Did you ever feel like there just weren't enough hours in the day? Have you ever stayed up late because you weren't tired enough to go to bed? Have you ever felt like you didn't get enough sleep and it was, too soon, time to get up? Have you ever wished for more free time to pursue different activities and goals?

If you can relate to these feelings, you will be interested in the 28 Hour Day. Under the 28 Hour Day system, the current week would remain at exactly 168 hours. (24x7=168) However, this 168 hour period would be divided into six 28-hour days rather than 7 24-hour days.

Some of the benefits of extending the length of the day are relatively clear: you would simply have more time to do the things you wanted to do. Everything you do now in a typical day could be done for a little longer: you could sleep longer, work longer, spend longer blocks of time with your family and friends, and have more leisurely meals. Other benefits become apparent when you realize that "daily" activities would occur less frequently: only six times each week instead of seven. Work, for example, could be accomplished in larger blocks of time, with fewer trips to and from the work place.

There are also benefits that come from the fact that, on a 28-hour day, our wake-sleep cycles would not be synchronized with the earth's cycle of light and dark.

There are strong philosophical and scientific arguments in favor of the 28 hour day. Serious proponents of the 28 hour day share their views here.

Ahhh...neo-darwinism! The descendants of fruit bats speak:

Until very recently in our evolution, it was a tremendous survival advantage to have a strong tendency spend your time and energy in the lit environment of the daytime, when you had the light to do things like hunt, gather, build, travel and fashion tools.

Now that our society has been transformed by mass production, division of labor, and artificial lighting, there is no longer any great advantage to being diurnal. There are, in fact, considerable advantages to breaking free of the 24 hour cycle.

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© 1997 Copyright Digital Beat Productions.

I can see it now: "Tuesday, the new Monday!"

1997? It must be one of Goober II's "reforms" that didn't quite catch on. BTW, what ever happened to the metric system?

Anyway, after minutes of consideration, I must reject this particular proposal to screw up absolutely everything as unworkable. And it would just kill Jack Bauer.