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The BBC reports:
The clock on the facade of the building housing the Bolivian congress in La Paz has been reversed. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to 12 anti-clockwise.
Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca dubbed it the "clock of the south". He said the change had been made to get Bolivians to treasure their heritage and show them that they could question established norms and think creatively.
"Who says that the clock always has to turn one way? Why do we always have to obey? Why can't we be creative?", he asked at a news conference on Tuesday. "We don't have to complicate matters, we just have to be conscious that we live in the south, not in the north," Mr Choquehuanca added.
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(Score: 2) by juggs on Friday June 27 2014, @05:48AM
I like the sentiment. I know not the motivation for the sentiment but I like it as a sentiment.
Question everything. Dissasemble everything and learn how and why it is how it is now. Take nothing for granted.
Why not reverse the representation of time if doing so inspires people to think about what time is?
It doesn't change time or anything else - it's just a clock being meddled with.
I wholeheartedly applaud this on the grounds that if even for a second people pause and think - not about some political BS or whatever motivation drove this - but "what is time?" "why am I rushing?"
And with that it seems I pass into the generation of people that say "In my day.....X"
I didn't think it would come so soon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 27 2014, @06:03AM
Why not reverse the rotation of the Earth as well, Superman? Stop taking the Earth for granted!
(Score: 3, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Friday June 27 2014, @09:41AM
Ah, but he didn't. He just went round the Earth faster than the speed of light, travelling back in time and so the Earth appeared to rotate backward below him.
Ok, that explanation doesn't quite work because he then goes back around it the other way to spin it back up, but other than that it does make slightly more sense.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 27 2014, @07:33PM
I find it fascinating that your thoughts almost perfectly mirrors my own when reading this article. That being said I know way too little about Bolivia to evaluate the meaning of his comments.