no it's not his fault but who is to blame well some might say the clock the first mechanical clock in europe dates back to the middle ages to a monastery of all places and so when it became our master dictating the rhythm of our lives tick tock tick tock the cruel rule of the clock. centuries ago and in some parts of the world to this day farm hands sometimes have extended breaks. because people followed their natural clock. the working day was configured by the weather the seasons and our body rhythms. until the advent of the mechanical clock it put paid to not rober thems replacing them with a single relentless beat sixty seconds in one minute with