According to Heidegger in Principle of ground, it
is the *power* of the principle of ground that leads to
modern bottomlessness. The last step of the taking away
of all meaning, consists in taking away the bottom
under man, the earth, ground as humus. It's the most
fundamental way of accomplishing meaninglessness
(nihilism), and the characterization, which
H calls 'unheimlich', of a human era as an 'atomic era'
should alarm those whose feet still touch the ground.
One really cannot blame the oil masters for ruining this world,
as long as those employed for thinking are immersed in their
unthematizable practices, and are far from willing to hear a
different tone, which is indispensable to make a beginning
with the end of the enslavement, the 'bewitchment of exclusively
reckoning thinking'. (Principle of ground, ending).
Which, indeed, extends to the two billion Heidegger lists,
Kenneth's right. The zero is a very suspect being. It's nothing,
but it multiplies enormously. At least, that's how the Middle Ages
felt about the Arab horse brought to Europe, and preferred to
reckon the inefficient Roman way.
Compare the opening of Oudeman's Reading against the grain (now
on the Ereignis site, a bit under Emad and right under Eldred:
"What remarkable phenomenon is this, that a cloud of oblivion,
the dying breath of Vorhandenheit (presence-at-hand), has shrouded
all secondary literature about Heidegger?"
anyway, not to let go:
- the demand to deliver ground.
- the challenging-forth of natural energies
and the Greek 'owing'. Only if one is no longer in the position to
acknowledge an owing, for instance to the matter that contributes to
things (the silver of the plate in QCT), power and oil can play their
unconditional, unhindered play. Because they are nothing of themselves,
meaningless and therefore ideal fuel of meaninglessness. In massively
multiplied quantities. Everything is to become more or less like it:
movement without rest, maximum 'happiness' for a maximum of shareholders.
it is outrageous, but where precisely is the outrageous located?
rene
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is the *power* of the principle of ground that leads to
modern bottomlessness. The last step of the taking away
of all meaning, consists in taking away the bottom
under man, the earth, ground as humus. It's the most
fundamental way of accomplishing meaninglessness
(nihilism), and the characterization, which
H calls 'unheimlich', of a human era as an 'atomic era'
should alarm those whose feet still touch the ground.
One really cannot blame the oil masters for ruining this world,
as long as those employed for thinking are immersed in their
unthematizable practices, and are far from willing to hear a
different tone, which is indispensable to make a beginning
with the end of the enslavement, the 'bewitchment of exclusively
reckoning thinking'. (Principle of ground, ending).
Which, indeed, extends to the two billion Heidegger lists,
Kenneth's right. The zero is a very suspect being. It's nothing,
but it multiplies enormously. At least, that's how the Middle Ages
felt about the Arab horse brought to Europe, and preferred to
reckon the inefficient Roman way.
Compare the opening of Oudeman's Reading against the grain (now
on the Ereignis site, a bit under Emad and right under Eldred:
"What remarkable phenomenon is this, that a cloud of oblivion,
the dying breath of Vorhandenheit (presence-at-hand), has shrouded
all secondary literature about Heidegger?"
anyway, not to let go:
- the demand to deliver ground.
- the challenging-forth of natural energies
and the Greek 'owing'. Only if one is no longer in the position to
acknowledge an owing, for instance to the matter that contributes to
things (the silver of the plate in QCT), power and oil can play their
unconditional, unhindered play. Because they are nothing of themselves,
meaningless and therefore ideal fuel of meaninglessness. In massively
multiplied quantities. Everything is to become more or less like it:
movement without rest, maximum 'happiness' for a maximum of shareholders.
it is outrageous, but where precisely is the outrageous located?
rene
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