matter.txt

matter.txt
Source:	phil_arc
Date:	1926 CE
Area:	C5

matter.txt is a text document stored in terminal C05 Extra in C5.

Contents

True, there are certain idealist books – not of a clerical character, but philosophical ones – wherein you can read that time and space are categories of our minds, that they result from the requirements of our thinking and that nothing actually corresponds to them in reality. But it is difficult to agree with this view. If any idealist philosopher, instead of arriving in time to catch the nine pm train, should turn up two minutes late, he would see the tail of the departing train and would be convinced by his own eyes that time and space are inseparable from material reality. 

The task is to diminish this space, to overcome it, to economize time, to prolong human life, to register past time, to raise life to a higher level and enrich it. This is the reason for the struggle with space and time, at the basis of which lies the struggle to subject matter to man – matter, which constitutes the foundation not only of everything that really exists, but also of all imagination.

[BRONSTEIN, /&

Notes

• The text derives from the 1926 speech "Radio, Science, Technique, and Society" by Russian revolutionary and communist writer Leon Trotsky, attributed here under his real and original name, Lev Davidovich Bronstein.