I shook the hand of time and I knew

So I am reading this pretty amazing book right now. Thus its worthiness of being inserted into a post since I have not posted in a month or so. It is called Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman and comments on our current dependence on the media to live. A quote to start us out:
"The clock is a piece of power machinery whose 'product' is seconds and minutes." -Lewis Mumford
This quote was in the book, followed by this statement:
In manufacturing such a product, the clock has the effect of disassociating time from human events and thus nourishes the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences. Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God;s conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created.

Is it not obvious that time is a creation solely of men? Do animals in nature run on time clocks? Have you ever seen a bird flying around with a pocket watch tied around his neck?
One would argue that man needs the concept of time to live and to flourish. This may be true of men, which says something of our species, seeing as how the birds and the fish get along perfectly fine without a clock ticking their life away for them and constantly reminding them of their mortality.

If time is a creation of man, how is it that people never seem to have enough of it? How can you not have enough of what is not there? Time is merely an idea. Yet another attempt on man to name everything that is unnameable. It's the same principal that can be applied to the mind. Men like Freud have tried to explain everything about something that can not be seen and could not be explained. They made rationals for something that is clearly irrational.

Though, it seems that this concept of time is something so old that man has become dependent upon it. Just as he needs air to breathe, water to drink, and food to eat, man needs time to live. It is funny to think that something that is not there has become a catalyst for life and for the well being of a person. For example, if I did not show up to work on-time, I might get fired. If I were fired, I would not have money. If I did not have money, I would starve. Clearly, time is needed, and must be valued.

However, what if the concept of time were removed from all life? How would you personally get along? How would society survive?

Just something to think about...