You know sex is real, because you can look at a man or a woman, and see masculinity or femininity. There's obviously something real and inherent there. On the other hand, noon isn't noon because we've recognized some "nooniness" that exists only at noon. There's nothing in reality that can be objectively pointed to.

Pluto is similar, but that's about categories. Categories themselves are somewhat arbitrary, but they're still based on observable qualities (ideally, anyways).

One of the pretensions of modernity is that our scales and measurements are real things, not tools we use to measure real things. We've granted these tools more legitimacy over reality than we ourselves have, even when they fail to represent reality as we're actually living it.

We have other tools that we serve, rather than the other way around. They're not measurement tools, but they're still tools. People live as mouthpieces for something they heard on television or social media. We bring phones with us out of the house, and they act like leashes held by whoever you can't get away with ignoring. And god forbid a fucking adult walk somewhere - That's really gonna fuck millenials and onwards when, come old age, and the age distribution being what it is, we're gonna be far more reliant on our own health to take care of ourselves.

DST is just a minor thing, but our culture took baby steps to get where we are now. Every tiny denial of modernity counts, and I'm planting my fucking ass on this hill.

What's important is who's exerting control: are we as individuals exerting control to make measurements suit our daily lives, or are government committees forcing the results of their political engineering upon us in order to homogenize everything into the same shade of grayish brown?