For people in the modern world, morning refers to the time from when you wake up to when you begin work. Although the bulk of the time is spent doing mechanical technical, automated and limited activities, just like anything else in the world, there are different vintage points to one phenomenon.
The romanticists recommend ‘Morning, the starting point of a day’, which gives a clear analysis of the morning time to beginners and ‘Morning, five minutes for a happier life’ for professionals which takes a more macro view. Documentary DVDs such as ‘Breakfast and happy day’ have also been very popular among the younger segment – or that is what they argue.
The skeptic circle, on the other hand, completely denies this - they are even speculating that the DVD mentioned above was bundled with cereal boxes for kids – and recommends the classic ‘Going to work? Go to hell’ as a must-read to the absent-minded people of today. They also issued a statement avidly supporting the recently launched movie ‘Hangover, heartburn and credit card receipt’, praising how aptly the work illustrates the pathos of morning.
In this tense conflict that can be compared to the Soviet Union and the U.S. during the cold era, the Unification circle is throwing shocking waves throughout. Their simple slogan - ‘weekend breakfast’ – is sending small but strong wave in the two circles.
The romanticists published ‘Theory of depression’, an excellent work describing how one becomes depressed from the morning of Sunday thinking that tomorrow is Monday, while the skeptic circle’s paper of ‘Occasionally idle morning’ that says ‘Isn’t Saturday morning still pleasant’, sparking a fierce debate. (In particular, the reaction from the hawkers, the weekend workers, is known to have been especially fierce.)
However, the dominant view is that the analysis by Unification doesn’t deserve serious attention because it fails to catch the essence as it is exposed to a very limited situation.
As such, there is still a long way to go before establishing a ‘Unified Theory of Morning’, but we still have hopes as signs of convergence are being witnessed, especially among the younger scholars.
