Lakota Times's Podcast
Lakota Times's Podcast
Next Year Will Be Incomplete
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January arrives with familiar annual, relentless demands. The calendar flips Then we are summoned to become someone new. “New year, new you,” they say. I, for one, never accepted that premise. Not because change is impossible or striving to be better is wrong, but because it rests on a particular theory of time. It asks us to believe time renews us—that the calendar’s turn can erase what came before. It’s convenient fiction Sociologist Emile Durkheim argued that time is not a natural fact but a social category organizing worldviews. Calendars, rhythms, and divisions emerge from community life, from shared rituals...