Getting up early doesn't mean anything.

Thousands of years ago, the only time anyone could do anything was during the day while the sun was up because humans don't come with night vision, and we had not yet invented the goggles. Well, technology and culture I think evolved far faster than our physical bodies.

Anyone can do any profession at any time of the day if they wanted to. The problem is that all of the baby boomers and older crowd have this idiotic unevolved perception about what it means to work hard and be responsible. And according to their school of thought, which is completely and totally incorrect, one can only be responsible by getting up early in the morning, and not "sleeping the day away", which means absolutely nothing in modern culture because we have invented a nice little thing called "The Lightbulb!"

Unless you work on a farm you really have no reason at all for working during the day other than the fact that "everyone else does."

It would really be a huge boost of productivity to take advantage of the night, think of the business opportunities involved, with all of the people who work second and third shift. Some business types, mainly the ones most concerned with what is commonly reffered to as "productivity" in the strict business sense of the word, have been taking advantage of the second and third shifts for many years now. But even after the invention of the lightbulb, it still took what I think to be a very long and unreasonable amount of time for businesses to take advantage of the new opportunities on any type of a large scale.


And for as long as people have been rising and resting according to the cycle of the sun, there have been people whose biological clocks are simply not set that way. Some people have sleeping disorders that force them to go to sleep very early and wake unusually early. But since it has long been favored to take all possible advantage of the light the sun provides us, so this disorder doesn't make one seem lazy, it makes them seem "ultra-productive." Where on the other hand you have things that areno different at all, like DSPS (delayed sleep phase syndrome), that are looked down upon, and sufferers are told to stop being lazy, and get to bed at a decent hour, not praised for their greatness like their early to rise counterparts.

No matter what anyone says, the time that you wake in the morning means NOTHING. It gives no indication about how productive or responsible of a person that you are, or any reference as to your character. It is far past the time to shed our ignorance of this issue and realize that almost everyone over the age of 40 has the wrong ideas about sleep, and about responsibility.

And if you want my honest opinion about the baby boomers and those before them.......

All I see out of those generations is a group of people who build their work lives and their character around lies meant to make them appear as the hardest working person around, when in reality they are anything but. In most cases they have equal to or less motivation and drive than the younger generations do.

Getting up at 6am means nothing if you go to bed at 10pm. It is no different than sleeping from 3am to 11am. And if you sleep from 4am to 11am, you are MORE productive than someone who sleeps from 10pm to 6am.

The baby boomers and before have thrown up the greatest of illusions about what it means to be responsible, and to work hard. They are just as lazy and irresonsible as anyone else, they do the least amount of work possible, but are very good at making it appear as though they take "extra" effort.
- posted by d3pth @ 9:34 PM (0) comments