Prometheus 6

That may seem like a weird question, but it's an important one. How LONG is "now"...does that make it clearer?

Didn't think so.

Technically there's no such thing as now. It's like the point at which possibility (which doesn't exist yet) collapses into events and pass away. Future and past don't exist, now is too transitory to identify. So we work in a window of time: intelligence grasping possibilities, perception passing the moment into memory; functionally, 'now' is this joining of intelligence, perception and memory and the size of your 'now' is determined by how much intelligence and memory you invoke.

This all came to mind watching Conservatives scream about Democrats attacking ABC over their propaganda piece, saying things like

There is much more in the note, but the salient point to me is not the truth or falseness of the TV series but the effort to silence ABC. Not only is there is no awareness that the campaign they are running against the Disney Corporation is dangerous but they revel in their ability to use all the forces at their command to intimidate a media outlet. If Republicans did this, the howls of outrage would know no bounds, yet the Democrats, champions of civil liberties as they fancy themselves to be, propose censorship without a trace of irony. [P6: emphasis added]

...when they did exactly that in 2003 over a Ronald Reagan docudrama...one that wasn't even disrespectful. They accuse Democrats of projection without a trace of irony (and this particular accuser says he's a psychoanalyst, which makes it ironic indeed).

Is this legitimate? Is 2003 so long ago it doesn't count anymore? It's important because a lot of disputes (for instance, discussions of the strife in the Middle East) would be simpler if we just agree on how long 'now' is.