Month: August 2025
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Overcoming the Commodification of Time
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, a venerable physician discovers a potion of youth. He gathers a group of elderly friends and administers the liquid to them as part of an experiment. He cautions them at the outset of the study: Before you drink, my respectable old friends,” said Dr. Heidegger, “it would be well…