What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline...
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past but an infinite number of brackets extending either way each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
