In a message dated 06/06/2004 16:56:40 GMT Standard Time,
m.riddoch@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
On Thursday, May 20, 2004, at 03:31 PM, I wrote:
Jud:
Surely Malcolm this old played-out 'will to will' wheeze is just another
name for the fixed and persistent intent or purpose part of old mother 'human
nature' — the way that human beings have been since the year dot one? Is not
Heidegger and the knuckle-trailing arboreal troop that swing behind him
deliberately and continually complicating simple concepts by dressing them up as
something different and more complicated, which is a feature of all
disciplines who wish to impart seriousness to their pseudoscientific investigations?
It always makes me smile when Heidegger puffed up with vanity writes
portentously of his 'philosophical investigations' and the 'problem of Being' as if
by repeatedly enunciating such remarks he will be able to magically breathe
some life into them, and make them credible as actual areas of adult concern.
Animals have their beastly nature and we have our beastly version? The
Doctor Mengele of Philosophy and the mad Nietzsche before him have played their
own parts in the reinforcement and buttressing of this will to power and 'will
to will' business and given this claptrap a certain academic imprimatur — so
you could argue that they are as much responsible for the way the nutters in
the Shitehouse are acting as anybody else.
How would you respond if the craven creature [who walks with his arms like a
gibbon — have you noticed?] that is Bush suddenly surprised you and turning
around after spitting his baccy chaw-juice on the floor and responded:
"Eyerack? Eyerack? Eyerack? What's so different with Eyerack? It's a
question of the strong and the weak that counts old boy. Haven't you read your
Nietzsche? Never heard of Heidegger? Listen Mister Chips Rafferty, might is
right and do you kangaroo rustlers HONESTLY think the game has altered just
because we've got heat-seeking missiles instead of battle-axes or boomerangs?"
If Nietzsche and Heidegger were right, we should agree wholeheartedly with
Goebbels when he said: 'Nun, Volk steh auf, und Sturm brich los!'
(Nation, Rise Up, and Let the Storm Break Loose,' and be grateful to the
percipient 'will to power-rangers' — the valiant Neocons [Gawd Bless em] for
taking note of what Der alte syphilitische Sünder Herr bloody Nietszche said,
and acting upon it accordingly on our behalf and that of our anglo
democracies?
Do you think that if the shoe was on the other foot, and we were the weak
ones with the oil, that the kindly and trustworthy old Arabs would treat us
differently? Come now — do you think that Arab human nature [will to will/will
to power] is any different to ours? I Arab real Politik any different to our
own?
You think so? OK, show me the examples of humanistic thinking which has
originated from the Arab world in the last two thousand years? Omar Khayaam?
No, he was a Persian who spoke and wrote in Farsi.
Kahlil Gibran? No, though he was among the most important Arabic language
authors of poetry of the early twentieth century. He also went on to become a
famous author and artist in his adopted country, the U.S., especially by
virtue of the phenomenal popularity of his 1923 The Prophet. The shekel-fest
ruined him in the end and he had dollar bills spewing out of his ass.
All this Heideggerian flim-flam about 'historical order of being' and
'intersubjective' historical order is a load of academic hogwash. We want petrol
for our cars — so we don't have to walk in the rain and we want oil to drive
our industries, so we can make things to sell that make life easy for us and
make loadsamoney while we do it.
I commend your efforts to reconcile Heideggerianism with common-sense, to
try to make that old gush germane again - to blow off the cobwebs [even the
cobwebs have cobwebs] and tie it all in with contemporary happenings, but you
are wasting your time — it simply can't be done. The political and economic
analysis of your piece is truly impressive and is highly readable — what mars
it are the parts when you depart from your brilliant feet-on-the-ground
politico-economic dissection, and introduce the gratuitous irrelevancies of the
kooky old fart Heidegger and the Loopy Loner from Leipzig
Cheers,
Jud.
Nullius in Verba
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JUD EVANS - XVANS XPERIENTIALISM
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