David Henkin

If we don't have our regular seven-day habits, if we don't do the things that we're used to doing in the way that we're used to doing them, we get dislodged from our sense of time more generally, and the week is the best way of expressing that sense of disorientation. Because the weak is the thing that we're most, in some ways, attached to.

If we don't have our regular seven-day habits, if we don't do the things that we're used to doing in the way that we're used to doing them, we get dislodged from our sense of time more generally, and the week is the best way of expressing that sense of disorientation. Because the weak is the thing that we're most, in some ways, attached to.

We're most worried about losing it because it depends on the frailty of human record keeping. But we're also most attached to it because it's the one that makes the difference to our lives. If you think today is the 16th and it turns out to be the 17th, it's probably not going to cause you much inconvenience or much consternation.

We're most worried about losing it because it depends on the frailty of human record keeping. But we're also most attached to it because it's the one that makes the difference to our lives. If you think today is the 16th and it turns out to be the 17th, it's probably not going to cause you much inconvenience or much consternation.

We're most worried about losing it because it depends on the frailty of human record keeping. But we're also most attached to it because it's the one that makes the difference to our lives. If you think today is the 16th and it turns out to be the 17th, it's probably not going to cause you much inconvenience or much consternation.

But if you think that today is Wednesday and it turns out to be Tuesday, it's firstly going to make you miss all kinds of appointments and do the wrong things, but it also is going to make you wonder whether you've just sort of lost track of time in some more fundamental way.

But if you think that today is Wednesday and it turns out to be Tuesday, it's firstly going to make you miss all kinds of appointments and do the wrong things, but it also is going to make you wonder whether you've just sort of lost track of time in some more fundamental way.

But if you think that today is Wednesday and it turns out to be Tuesday, it's firstly going to make you miss all kinds of appointments and do the wrong things, but it also is going to make you wonder whether you've just sort of lost track of time in some more fundamental way.

I think you do have to have that, and I think the pandemic shutdown showed us how attached we are to it. The threats to the week, I think, don't come from things like pandemic shutdowns. The threats to the week come, and they were in place much earlier, come from things like telecommuting. working from home, non-synchronized entertainment.

I think you do have to have that, and I think the pandemic shutdown showed us how attached we are to it. The threats to the week, I think, don't come from things like pandemic shutdowns. The threats to the week come, and they were in place much earlier, come from things like telecommuting. working from home, non-synchronized entertainment.

I think you do have to have that, and I think the pandemic shutdown showed us how attached we are to it. The threats to the week, I think, don't come from things like pandemic shutdowns. The threats to the week come, and they were in place much earlier, come from things like telecommuting. working from home, non-synchronized entertainment.

So for example, when I was a kid, a lot of what people thought was the feeling of Wednesday or Thursday had to do with what was on TV those days. So that's gone and it's gone except for sports. But scripted entertainment is now asynchronous and work is often asynchronous or just irregular patterns. So those are the things that might make the week either less necessary or less powerful.

So for example, when I was a kid, a lot of what people thought was the feeling of Wednesday or Thursday had to do with what was on TV those days. So that's gone and it's gone except for sports. But scripted entertainment is now asynchronous and work is often asynchronous or just irregular patterns. So those are the things that might make the week either less necessary or less powerful.

So for example, when I was a kid, a lot of what people thought was the feeling of Wednesday or Thursday had to do with what was on TV those days. So that's gone and it's gone except for sports. But scripted entertainment is now asynchronous and work is often asynchronous or just irregular patterns. So those are the things that might make the week either less necessary or less powerful.

We also don't need it as much as a scheduling device because our electronic calendars can hold

We also don't need it as much as a scheduling device because our electronic calendars can hold

We also don't need it as much as a scheduling device because our electronic calendars can hold

appointments in place for us without our relying on the regularity of a weekly of a weekly meeting so those are the things that threaten the week but i do think that you're right mike that uh we cling to the week because there's nothing else like it uh because it does encapsulate somehow our our sense of being in time and it because it reflects all the social arrangements that uh that shape our lives i do think the week is likely to

appointments in place for us without our relying on the regularity of a weekly of a weekly meeting so those are the things that threaten the week but i do think that you're right mike that uh we cling to the week because there's nothing else like it uh because it does encapsulate somehow our our sense of being in time and it because it reflects all the social arrangements that uh that shape our lives i do think the week is likely to

appointments in place for us without our relying on the regularity of a weekly of a weekly meeting so those are the things that threaten the week but i do think that you're right mike that uh we cling to the week because there's nothing else like it uh because it does encapsulate somehow our our sense of being in time and it because it reflects all the social arrangements that uh that shape our lives i do think the week is likely to