Decolonizing Time

The Colonial Invention and Domination of Linear Time

Trigger Warning

This piece engages with themes of colonial violence, genocide, cultural erasure, temporal domination, missing and murdered Indigenous peoples, epistemic exploitation, and the manipulation of historical narratives. It includes discussions of how powerful institutions have shaped time itself, memory, futurity, and identity in ways that may be distressing for readers whose families, communities, or cultures have experienced these harms.

Readers are encouraged to pause, step away, or create grounding practices as needed. Take care of your body, your breath, and your nervous system while moving through this work.

Preface

This writing emerges from a need to articulate something often felt but rarely named: that colonialism was never just a conquest of land, but a conquest of time. Modern power structures did not only rewrite maps — they rewrote calendars, cosmologies, and entire timelines. They fragmented ancestral memory, interrupted seasonal rhythms, replaced cyclical time with industrial time, and carved futures that served only themselves.

This work examines “temporal imperialism” — the way empires use hidden technology to occupy the past, police the present, and pre-script or manipulate the future.

It also explores how pop-cultural mythologies like ancient aliens, Hollywood futurism, and nationalistic space narratives function as tools of distraction, denial, and temporal control.

Everything here is written as theory, critique, and conceptual analysis — as a lens through which to understand how power shapes imagination and understanding of time.

It is an invitation to recover temporal sovereignty, to uncolonize our sense of history and possibility, and to reclaim the right to remember, to exist, and to envision futures outside the timelines imposed upon us.

Colonial Time Keeping

Colonial modernity imposed:

a single timeline can’t be reversed, changed, or relived

a single version of reality

a single verified historical narrative

a single direction for time to flow

Yet, Shamanic and Indigenous cosmologies around the world often understood time and history as:

cyclical

relational

recursive

porous

multi-layered

non-linear

When colonizing powers constructed the idea of “empty wilderness,” and “liner time” they weren’t just erasing peoples — they were erasing temporalities and knowledge of the land.

They replaced living, breathing time with a state-controlled, church controlled calendar, and converted ancestral presence into historical absence.

To colonize land, those at the helm of colonial systems had to groom colonial bodies, and to colonize bodies they had to colonize minds, but to measure it all, first they had to alter our perception of time-space itself.

We can not imagine a technologically advanced society where time travel is real, stable, and inexpensive. Why?

Because it is hidden. Hidden not because of impossibility, or because of aliens with bad intentions, but because corrupt, psychologically disordered actors have secretly developed:

faster than light travel / UFOs / UAPs

time-crystal–based temporal stabilizers

quantum coherence engines

chronon-field reactors

retrocausal computational networks

quantum computers fused with time-symmetric materials

In a universe of globalized time tech:

time is as renewable as sunlight

the past and future are accessible

nothing is truly lost

every disappearance is reversible

death is preventable

abortion and misciarage reversible

harm can be undone

And this is precisely why the technologies are hidden, and watered down in the public sphere. It’s also why they keep us fighting for life and identify over politics surrounding these topics.

Emerging Quantum Technology Exposes the Moral Bankruptcy of Those Who Hide It

If the public learned that time is:

recoverable

editable

abundant

responsive

reclaimable

then they would realize:

suffering was optional

inequality was engineered

disasters could have been prevented

trauma could have been healed

retroactively missing people could have been retrieved

atrocities could have been undone

money is meaningless

markets are engineered

That’s why Jesus said, “They know not what they do,” I guess.

This would reveal the true nature of the people throughout space and time who hid these technologies:

Not chosen, royal, or elite — but corrupt, psychologically disordered actors whose power depends on manufacturing pain, scarcity, and fear. Shame and sexual dysfunction would then effect their ability to accept accountability, with compounding negative effects for reality itself.

Why the Corrupt Hide Temporal Manipulation

Because the application of time science makes:

war unnecessary and unprofitable

prisons obsolete because crime is preventable and reversible

poverty preventable

exploitation pointless

resource scarcity a myth

death negotiable

trauma undoable

In other words:

Time technologies democratized make authoritarian control impossible.

These actors obfuscate temporal tech because their identities depend on:

control

dominance

secrecy

impunity

the ability to erase evidence

the ability to decide who gets to suffer

the ability to manufacture silence

to hide their movements

to control every aspect of your waking life and evolution

Temporal democracy would collapse all of it.

Temporal Imperialism: When Power Colonizes the Clock

Temporal imperialism is the political project of controlling people not only through land, labor, or resources, but through technological understanding of time itself.

It is the extraction of futures, the erasure of pasts, and the policing of the present through:

hidden speculative technologies

information warfare and statecraft

gatekept education

forced schedules

calendar replacement

boarding and public schools

destroying ritual time cycles

wage labor

regulating the day

borders

interrupting migration patterns

archives deciding which memories count

media narratives deciding which futures are valid and imaginable

Colonialism did not just seize territory — it seized temporal sovereignty over all peoples in it.

Indigenous nations and pre-globalized societies had cyclical, seasonal, relational, and kinship-based temporal systems.

Colonial nation state regimes replaced them with mechanical clock time, capitalist time, military time, industrial time, and bureaucratic time.

Temporal imperialism is the violence of telling someone:

“Your ancestors’ time is obsolete.

Your future is already decided.

Live on our schedule or disappear.”

It is not only physical domination; it is the occupation of the imagination.

Media Mythology as Temporal Distraction

How modern empires use fiction, spectacle, and futurism to shape temporal consciousness.

Mainstream culture manufactures temporal narratives that pull attention away from real histories, real Indigenous worldview, real science, and real political power.

1. Star Wars: The Empire as a Decoy for the Real Empire

Star Wars packages empire, rebellion, and destiny into an entertaining cosmic myth that:

frames empire as a distant “galaxy far away,” not a real, ongoing persistent structure

turns colonial violence into space opera instead of history

replaces Indigenous cosmologies with Hollywood cosmologies

shifts the imagination from land stewardship to technocratic futurism

It feeds the idea that “real oppression” looks like lasers and planet-killers — not quiet dispossession, pipelines, and missing women.

Star Wars is not harmful in itself.

The problem is how it functions culturally:

It substitutes spectacle for structural analysis.

It replaces real political futures with cinematic ones.

It gives us a feeling of catharsis to see unlikely couples dismantling the system, rather than creating our own.

2. Ancient Aliens: Colonialism Rebranded as Cosmic Intervention

The “ancient aliens” genre performs a quieter form of temporal imperialism:

It claims Indigenous monuments were built by extraterrestrials instead of ancestral human scientists, architects, astronomers, and engineers. It removes human agency from the past. It replaces global technological history with fantasy. It preserves the racist trope: “They couldn’t have built this themselves.” It also allows them to steal land, steal ancient technology, and hide it from ever being used again.

The myth is not innocent — it is an epistemic extraction of Indigenous achievement and knowledge.

Instead, the genre claims these accomplishments must have come from extraterrestrial visitors — effectively replacing:

Indigenous scientists with aliens

Indigenous mathematics with cosmic mythology

Indigenous engineering with fantasy

Indigenous cosmology with techno-mysticism

This is not merely inaccurate. It is a political act of genocide and erasure.

By insisting “aliens built this,” the narrative removes Indigenous agency from the past, portraying colonized civilizations as incapable of intelligence or innovation.

And additionally, it makes it easier to set the conditions to justify genocide and rewrite an entirely new and false history — a history where Indigenous brilliance becomes myth, their technologies become anomalies, and their sovereignty becomes optional.

This is how temporal imperialism works:

erase the past → distort the present → control the future.

3. The Space Race: A Cold War Spectacle of Temporal Ownership

The mid-20th century space race was framed as:

a contest for the moon

a demonstration of whose civilization “deserved” to own space

proof of progress and superiority

But in practice, it redirected massive attention and resources while:

ignoring colonial violence happening on Earth

Ignoring faster than light travel excitements already happening on earth

masking nuclear testing and increased militarization

erasing Indigenous ecological knowledge

privatizing life sustaining resources

equating “the future” with technological conquest, not relational survival

The space race turned futurity into a nationalistic brand. It also, distracted from the truth, we are in a timespace colonial race not a space race.

4. Media Futurism as a Cloaking Device

This is about cultural function.

Spectacle futurism—Star Wars, ancient aliens discourse, the space race, Marvel multiverses—serves a political purpose:

it convinces the public that the “real action” is cosmic, not terrestrial.

it builds fascination with fictional timelines and sensationalized relationships instead of historical ones.

It keeps attention pointed outward, upward, or elsewhere.

It distracts from Indigenous dispossession, extraction, surveillance, and militarization happening in the present. It protects slavers torturing women and children.

It replaces real political futures with spectacle futures.

This is not “they are hiding time manipulation.”

This is:

The dominant culture manipulates the imagination of time

— past, present, and future —

through storytelling.

Temporal imperialism is not science fiction. It’s being studied and expanded upon daily.

It is cultural control over how we understand our place in history and what futures can be allowed to bloom.

The bible helps me stay grounded in these times—not because I see absolute truth, but because I’m reminded our ancestors channeled these challenges and that humanity and dignity prevails and we do find some kind of paradise after the dust settles on our perceived differences.