What is Chronocide?
1.
A massive waste of time. Defiance of time, either physically, figuratively or philisophically. To rebel against the idea of time. To regress socially or politically on a macro level. The destruction of time itself.
(adj. Chronocidal)
"Electoral politics is chronocide for civil rights."
2.
chronocide n (Greek khronos, time + Latin cidum, from caedere, to slay; cf. genocide, homicide, parricide) - the murder of time, the violent interruption of historical succession and continuity.
Any revolution is a form of chronocide: the past and present are sacrificed to the future. Any counterrevolution is also a chronocide: the present and the future are sacrificed to the past.
Communism is a chronocide: it destroys the tradition in its leap to the ungrounded future.
Fascism is a chronocide: it brings the society under the spell of the archaic past.
3.
to kill time, especially when you're completely bored and lazy.
The teacher who didn't come prepared committed chronocide all day long.
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4.
chronocide n (Gr. khronos, time + Lat. cidum, from caedere, to slay; cf. genocide, homicide, parricide) - the murder of time, the violent interruption of historical succession and continuity.
Any revolution is a form of chronocide: the past and present are sacrificed to the future. Any counterrevolution is also a chronocide: the present and the future are sacrificed to the past.
Communism is a chronocide: it destroys the tradition in its leap to the ungrounded future.
Fascism is a chronocide: it brings the society under the spell of the archaic past.
5.
the systematic act or process of killing time; the violent destruction of a timekeeping device
I commit chronocide at the bus stop, on the bus, and just about everywhere else.
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