Time

This strange attitude to Time in the west is not due to an antagonism to Time itself but to the unreality of the modern world. Which man has created for himself. With his misdirected energy and his lack of undestanding he has made his own world so complex and so filled with trivia of existence that he has lost himself in it. Like a Minotaurian labyrinth, and for him it has become the only reality. True reality is thought of as a philosophical abstraction fit only for a few thinkers and not for busy men. As the true reality is the only one that gives man a full satisfaction in Time, the unreal world of activity and pointless rush can only give an illusion of life. Whenever the rush stops, Time proclaims the void, and it is to scape the void that the time most be killed. Its done by highly and systematically organized sport, radio, movies, tourism, clubs and parties - by anything that can conceal the frightening face of Time. The more the reality of life is avoided the more necessary  it is to kill Time. But without reality whatever man perceives is nothing but illusion and vexation of spirit. 

Peter Goullart in Forgotten Kingdom.