Then you feel exhausted the next day and regret staying up for no reason
So you do it again.
Wheel turning round and round.
But if you go to sleep then you’d have to stop doing fun stuff.
If you stay up late enough it turns into being up too early.
had to wake up at 5am today because I got scheduled for morning shift. Was awake playing a Minecraft modpack struggling to understand a crafting tree at 2:30am 😅
Do I need to solve every crossword on [website]? No. Am I going to? Yes. To fix the eyes in a steady intent look often with eagerness or studious attention? Gaze.
“No problem, I’ll just stay awake the entire day and be super tired by nighttime.”
By noon: “No I’m not taking a nap, I’m just resting my eyes for a minute.”
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Capitalist society doesn’t create a framework for healthy sleep. It’s tolerated as something that we do to function. We aren’t making money when we are asleep. With hourly work, the maintenance needed to keep a body going isn’t compensated.
Pre modern folks used to have different sleeping schedules than we did - often it was sleeping for a few hours in the evening, waking up a little after midnight, having sex/reading/small chores, and then falling back asleep. (It’s important to be careful when generalizing all of human culture, but I think this is one thing that is relatively universal.) That doesn’t work with the “must extract labor as efficiently as possible from every human” model.
I actually watched a video covering this topic recently, some other the other potential reasons given for the change was electricity (specifically lights) and entertainment services (theaters, bars, etc.) They correlate since having lights on the streets made it safer and thus the businesses could thrive. But now rather than falling asleep as say 8-9pm when it’s dark and you’ve nothing to do (especially when it’s only candle light), you can go out, watch movies, play games, drink, hang out etc. Which just naturally pushed how far out people stayed up in the night.
This is not fact, just potential explanations given by said video (see: Thoughty2 on YouTube, don’t have the link ATM)
You know what, that’s fair. I like some elements of capitalism but when you’re right, you’re right. Fair point.
