19 August

It's not a secret I hate daylight saving. But it's always been difficult to explain to others what it is about it that is so stupid and so appalling. I think this nails it. We have a semi-religion of WAKISM, as described in this article, and daylight saving is just one of the more stupid aspects of it. We've medicalised sleep and made it about EEGs and hormones and brain chemicals. But what we've really done is a much, much bigger and more serious, existential thing. Fantastic insights here too into many aspects of this problem, like how sleeping pills don't help sleep, they just make you forget being awake. We're hyperaroused. Our conscious selves are constantly anxious and exhausted, trying to make the world revolve around them. Fuck daylight saving, it's not far off again. https://aeon.co/essays/the-cure-for-insomnia-is-to-fall-in-love-with-sleep-again