Long ago, your first day at school birthed the hyperreality “named days.” Think “Monday through Friday” and what do you feel? Anguish? Maybe a little discomfort? How about the word “Saturday”? Or “Friday night”? Named days order the week by titles, Monday through Sunday, carrying with it the implication that Monday starts work and Friday ends it, while the weekend reserves play. The fact is, named days are a hyperreality, one the industrialized world has perfected to perfection. Beneath the named-days scheme is a man-made illusion your mind has made real—the illusion that your life’s limited
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