What’s the matter? we question a problem or situation at hand… Matter of factly… meaning actually in fact… Mind before matter. When researched, “The term matter traditionally refers to the substance that all objects are made of…” I can go further, yet substance is where we can stop. There is printed matter, abstract matter, atoms and electrons, protons, and neutrons, which are a the basic building blocks of a much more intangible thing, word, person, place, feeling, icon…. Linguistically, matter is “a situation, state, affair, or business: a trivial matter………. ….importance or significance… ..reason … things sent by mail …a substance discharged by a living body…” What then, matters? Seemingly everything and nothing, as all things are calculated in dealing with the presence or absence of matter. If matter didnt matter, would we exist? Would anything exist? With existentialism approaching, the multiplicity of what matter is, does, does not, and has, creates a sovereign world within six simple letters. Matter composes all things. Is matter therefore, an inadvertent creator or has society created a hell of a loaded bag of meanings for this word. Roland Barthes, an early 20th century thinker/talker/writer/reactionary and man of abundant critiques for the bourgeois, should be called
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