The usually out-of-touch nature of middle management scores a point where it is traditionally mocked in TV comedy.

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We thus tend to infuse the passage of time with meaning and to see agency in it as well, whether it takes the form of God's supernatural agency in settling moral scores or nature knocking us off the pedestal of our technological hubris.

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