Sunday Thoughts

I hate daylight savings time. The main reason is every year it means a week where it feels like I am late for everything, like I overslept by an hour. As a person who likes to get an early start, this is the worst feeling in the world. Sure, I get that wonderful vibe in the autumn where it feels like I gained an hour, but it is not a trade-off I favor. The spring forward misery far outweighs the fallback benefit that is long forgotten by the time spring arrives.

Daylight savings time is an artifact of the late industrial era boom where all the best people were sure they could solve all the world’s problems. The concept was literally dreamed up by a bug man. New Zealand entomologist George Hudson first proposed the idea of moving the clocks forward because be worked odd hours at a factory and wanted more daylight to collect bugs. Eventually the busy bodies latched onto it, and we got this stupid concept.

Daylight savings time is a lot like tax time. The people who like daylight savings time are the same sorts who like getting a tax refund every year. They do not grasp how the government was borrowing their labor for the prior year, only to return a bit without interests. They look at it as a gift from the government, the wonderful and benevolent government. The same applies here. People think they are getting a free hour of daylight from their rulers.

The closest thing to immortality is a government program and you see it here. Trump mentioned getting rid of this and he was bombarded with messages from bugmen demanding their free hour. Even suggesting we just leave the clock alone starting now does not work. For some reason, a sizable portion of the public wants to feel like the government is giving them more sun each spring. Perhaps it is just a part of our primitive brain at work. Maybe it is the Russians.

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