Coffee drinking is an addiction. 80% of all the people on Earth are addicted to caffeine and drinking coffee. Why does capitalism "like" this addiction and promote the drinking of coffee? (so people wake up on time for get their fix and then report to the factory on time).
After 6 - 8 hours, your body needs caffeine. If you drink caffeine on a regular (time clock) schedule, the caffeine will keep you on that schedule.
When I quit drinking coffee, I noticed that my sleep cycles became "disturbed." I did not get tired at the same time each day. Sometimes I was "awake" at night. Sometimes I fell asleep during the day. I realized that the human "internal clock" is not as regulated as the factory clock. Drinking caffeine keeps me on a regular hourly sleep wake cycle that is good for business and good for the factory owner.
Humans do not have a regular sleep cycle because the light/dark cycles of night and day change so much during the year. In the winter we have about ten hours of light and fourteen hours of darkness. In the summer, those hours are reversed, with almost fourteen hours of light and ten hours of darkness. In that constantly changing "light environment," there is no regular time clock reference to regulate the "internal biological clock." The biological clock does not have the rigorous temporal accuracy of modern time.
This is why we drink caffeine: It is good for business and keeps us going to work at the same time (on the clock) each day.
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William Schaeffer
People naturally have an internal clock that is not as "regular" as a digital clock. Coffee drinking helps align your internal clock to the digital clock that runs all of our lives. If you drink coffee, then you NEED to have another fix every 6 - 10 hours. If you are regularly drinking coffee in an environment that is rigorously controlled by a time clock, then soon the coffee will keep your internal clock aligned with the factory time clock.
ReplyDeleteWhen I quit drinking coffee, I found that my internal clock started to drift and I did not fall asleep at the same time each day. Sometimes I fell asleep int he middle of the day (a nap). Sometimes I was awake late at night. My theory is that this condition is natural and normal. Only the extreme adherence to "time of day" on the digital clock, makes us aware of this. Coffee drinking keeps our internal clock synchronized with our employers time clock. Coffee drinking helps our employers to actually "own" us and "own" our biological time clock.