"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another"

This quote by Lennart Meri talks to the detach between our modern civilization and the natural flow of time. He recommends that our civilization has lost the connection to the cyclical nature of time, and instead has actually adopted a direct technique to measuring it. We utilize a yardstick to determine time, breaking it down into smaller sized and smaller sized increments, from one point to another. This linear approach to time has actually ended up being so ingrained in our culture that we often forget that time is not a direct principle, however rather a cycle that is continuously duplicating itself. By losing this connection to the cyclical nature of time, we have actually lost an important part of our culture and our understanding of the world.