[tempe1h1]

the most often overlooked aspect of "the present" is that it has a size or length.

so the "present" may be a second, zero seconds (with lots of math), or even 1000 years.

[zwkrt]

Right. In a sense even when planning for the future we are living 'in the present' since we aren't actually taking a time machine to the future but instead looking at present circumstances and planning some future change that we hope to enact or predict.

I think the issue raised by the article is that people's 'present' seems to be shrinking. Which as the sibling comment expands on means that people can't plan effectively.

Now with that being said I think that the article is a load of B.S. It is a ridiculous shirking of responsibility to say "I can't plan because I have this issue called 'temporal disintegration' caused by the vague trauma of current events". I am not saying trauma isn't real, but sometimes I see it used by people to externalize their locus of control. When has it ever been easy to be a human on this Earth? Get over yourself.