Time

A sunrise behind a misty river.

Is time a necessary part of reality? Traditionally, we believe that what is begone and begone, while what has to come isn't there yet.

But isn't it true that everything that has happened remains - not only as an echo, a ruin, or an artefact - but as the root that is still contained in what is the present? The future, on the other hand, can only be a result from the past - it can never exist on its own, but only as a consequence of what has been.
A past without a future can likewise not exist, as it is always only there as its own shadow projected into the future that is to come: The current, as the moment between past and future, is never graspable in its concreteness - we can only recognize it in hindsight, as part of the past - not only because our perception is - necessarily - delayed, but because our whole thinking works only backwards - the moment unfolds always at a later point.

If the current is - as the core of reality itself - not graspable, the future only existent as pasts continuation, and the past only as a shadow in the future, we might say that time is only relevant, if at all, as a dimension. A technicality, useful for technical means, but not as a concept to see, to understand, or experience the world that we live in. The human as the subject of time is a invention, a fiction that came into history, since space largely lost the power to contain us. But in reality, we life, at any given point, in past and future alike; the existence itself is enraptured from the dimension of time, and really only exists within the ideational room.

Any politic that takes only reference of past, present, or future is thus mendacious - we need to overcome it.