Time has been mechanized already by sundials. These nails and chains that are banged in and put around time have been increasingly refined to accumulate in the advent of the atomic clock. So-called Natural units were even invented. Without mechanized time the world would have looked very different. Maybe we have some kind of marshmallow minds. Maybe we could better wear aikhornnuts on our wrists as Krznaric puts it.

Like I said, maybe we have. Can't we break free from the chains of time like that English member of parliament did by breaking his watch in public? Or are we by Nature obedient slaves of time?