Tudor Georgescu wrote on 6/19/04, 12:33 PM:
> Why do you think it was easier for Heidegger to be authentic in
> totalitarianism (will all that Gestapo he got on his tracks) than it
> was for
> him to be authentic in democracy?
Heidegger did not live under a totalitarian gov't. he lived under a
fascism, ie, a gov't based on the racist demonization of one group of
society by rallying the populance (or a major portion thereof) agst it...
>
> Readers of Heidegger have to get this: his life had to prove the mere
> fact
> suggested above: totalitarianisms, through fearing culture, they
> further a
> dialogue with culture (albeit in a negative way); such dialogue is
> missing
> in democracy.
Now that is an interesting proto-fascistic thought...
>
> Some may have asked: what was Holocaust produced by? Answer: the ongoing
> spiritual genocide called modernity produced it. This is what happens
> when
> one lets the masses decide in matters of culture and taste: general and
> final extinction of all values, laden with hate against all that is
> free and
> creative.
and there is another one... let's find those anti-culture, democratic
bastids and bugger 'em good, eh, Tudor?
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