a. Fragmentation of time in modern society
The fragmentation of time in modern society refers to the disconnection between the human experience of time and the resonance of absolute time. This phenomenon can be observed empirically in various aspects of social, economic, and psychological life. Time is no longer experienced as a continuity connected to meaning or the cosmos, but is fragmented into units of production, consumption, and performativity separated from existential depth.
1. Time as a Commodity:
In the capitalist system, time is reduced to "working hours", "deadlines", and "efficiency duration". This creates chronic stress and accelerates the rhythm of life, disrupting human connection with oneself, others and nature. This fragmentation triggers existential fatigue that leads to what Hartmut Rosa calls resonance crisis.
2. Social Synchronization:
Institutions---schools, offices, social media---operate time within a mutually asynchronous framework. Daily life becomes a kind of temporal labyrinth that confuses direction. Biological time, such as sleep and circadian rhythms, is often disrupted by social and technological demands that do not recognize day and night.
3. Acceleration without Direction:
 Draft acceleration society by Rosa and desynchronization by Bernard Stiegler shows that modern humans live in a time that is constantly accelerating but without value resonance. As a result, time no longer contains the quality of experience, but only the quantity of duration.
4. Crisis of Meaning:
Because time no longer connects humans to metaphysical or spiritual values, meaning becomes disjointed. Existential phenomena such as nihilism, alienation, and depression are often rooted in the experience of empty or meaningless time.
5. Technologicalization and Digitalization of Time:
With the advent of predictive algorithms and artificial intelligence, time is now being reduced to a series of behavioral statistics that can be monetized. In the digital world, time becomes data, not experience. This distances humans from resonating with absolute time, because time is no longer understood holistically, but in terms of clicks, likes, and screen hours (screen time).
8.b. Climate Crisis, Human Burnout, and the Speed of the Economic System
In the frame Absolute Time Resonance Theory, the climate crisis, human burnout, and the acceleration of the global economic system cannot be seen as separate phenomena. All three are manifestations of a deep temporal dissonance --- the dissonance between relative time governed by accelerative logic and absolute time that contains ecological and existential harmony.
1. Economic Acceleration and the Illusion of Eternal Progress
The modern economic system is driven by the principle of unlimited growth (infinite growth) in a space and time that is actually limited. In the framework of absolute time, this is a destructive illusion: time cannot be reduced to an accumulative function. When relative time is shaped by the rhythm of endless consumption, production and innovation, ecological imbalance becomes inevitable.
