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From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker@xxxxxx>
To: <heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:40 AM
Subject: RE: [fyi] Economic Mythology
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> [mailto:owner-heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Namens bob scheetz
> Verzonden: maandag 4 oktober 2004 15:56
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> Onderwerp: Re: [fyi] Economic Mythology
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> he misses the core myth of the times, "the market", ...the deified market,
> to which everything is owed and whence all good comes, ...and its great
> adversary, "gummint", and source of all that is evil
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> And the thinking on this myth-market is, again, the most dangerous
> form of thinking: the one that only meets confirmation, as its fuel.
> The myth of Greek myth as the mother of all myth, is the myth of the
> really helpless, of those who can keep their lips above the rising
water
> only with help of values, that miraculously have a status, just by
> claiming them: the best founded mythology: spiritual emptiness
expressed
> in physical emptiness - money.
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> Obsessive lying shows what they really are: victims.
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> Whoever is caught in this myth, goes under, pockets full or empty.
> Sucked by the one big vacuum cleaner.
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> Which makes me think: when, as Heidegger writes, we've reached an age
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> which 'what is' and what's in this 'what is' (Geschick) touches every
> individual *directly*, could this have been done without the real
exising
> myth of democracy and freedom...?
> Even if it's the most ingeneous of myths with a happy ending, the truth
> (destruction) of this myth has it in a fest grip. As Nietzsche hoped,
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> power of the individual then increases enormously, and he is the real
> president, to whom things and words flee.
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> rene
Rene,
i like what you say as applied to Power; but i don't understand how you
can fail to distinguish between the creatively heuristic constructs of the
spirit and the meretricious usages of power?
...got to go restore the spirit
thanks, rene, think finally get your pt, ...only can't yet concede it
exclusive validity.
bob
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